BI 242 Kathryn Nave: How Life Gets its Meaning and Intelligence

Kathryn Nave, Paul Middlebrooks

Published Jul 15, 2026

105 minutes

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Kathryn Navecontributor
Paul Middlebrookscontributor

Episode Description

Kathryn Nave discusses how living systems acquire meaning and intelligence through organization, constraints, and active inference. The conversation connects the free-energy principle and organizational closure to questions about brains, cognition, agency, and the boundaries of intelligent life.

Topics Discussed

active inferencefree-energy principlecognitionagency

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