Colin Deyoung is a personality psychologist, personality neuroscientist, the creator of the Cybernetic Big Five Personality theory and professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota.

Adam Safron, Ph. D., is a Cognitive Scientist and psychologist who studies the nature of preferences and motivation from mechanistic, developmental, and evolutionary perspectives. Recently, he has proposed a model of embodied agency and free will and is working on a unified mechanistic account of psychedelics.

The conversation explores the integration of cybernetics and active inference, with a focus on cybernetic big five theory and its relationship to personality traits.

Check out the paper (s):

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/653wp

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kjzf7

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle
11:07 The Big Five Theory in Personality Psychology
14:24 Integrating Cybernetics and the Free Energy Principle
21:08 The Motivation for Integrating Cybernetics and Personality Psychology
22:57 Personality Traits as Control Parameters in Cybernetic Systems
27:21 The Contextual Nature of Personality Traits
30:34 The Relationship Between Personality Traits and World Models
35:59 The Interplay Between Stability and Plasticity in Personality Traits
40:42 Relevance Realization and Personality Traits
43:07 The Role of Personality Traits in Solving the Frame Problem
47:13 Inactivism and Computationalism
51:20 The Role of Representation
54:41 Embodiment and Extended Cognition
59:02 Examining the Homunculus and Cartesian Theater
01:04:39 The Role of the Hippocampus
01:08:03 The Connection Between the Hippocampus and Narrative
01:12:37 Understanding Cortical Gradients
01:14:44 The Complex Relationship Between Embodiment, Self-Modeling, and Consciousness

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