Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2020-05-28
Books mentioned on #99 – Karl Friston: Neuroscience and the Free Energy Principle
Karl Friston is one of the greatest neuroscientists in history, cited over 245,000 times, known for many influential ideas in brain imaging, neuroscience, and theoretical neurobiology, including the fascinating idea of the free-energy principle for action and perception.
Karl Friston discussed Space, Time and Gravitation by Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Space, Time and Gravitation
Discussed“my father was an engineer and love science and enough he loved real sort of things like Sir Arthur and his space-time and gravitation which was the the other the first understandable version of general relativity and he so although all the fairy stories I was told as I was growing up were all about these characters”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The Fellowship of the Ring
“Keeping the Hobbit out of this because I was quite nervous there's a journey of exploration”