#1316 Casper Hesp: Active Inference, Affect, Culture, and Phenomenology
Casper Hesp is a PhD candidate in Social Computational Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. His research aims to model and understand how social life develops in individuals and over generations, and going from an understanding of the emotional basis of social life to modeling culture.
In this episode, we first discuss active inference as a framework. We then talk about feelings and moods, emotional valence, core affect, the role of communication with conspecifics and keeping track of each other’s feelings, and how we go from an understanding of the emotional basis of social life to the study of culture and cultural evolution. We discuss cumulative culture, and religious practices as multiscale active inference. We also discuss how to naturalize phenomenology through neuroscience. Finally, we talk about applications of this knowledge to healthcare, entertainment, and elsewhere.
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Intro
The framework of active inference
What are feelings and moods?
Emotional valence
Core affect
Communication with conspecifics, and keeping track of each other’s feelings
Going from the emotional basis of social life to culture and cultural evolution
Cumulative culture
Religious practices as multiscale active inference
Naturalizing phenomenology through neuroscience
Applications in healthcare, entertainment, and so on
Follow Casper’s work!
Follow Casper’s work:
University page: https://bit.ly/3P4RoIh
Website: https://bit.ly/3rLzqRF
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/43SuYOJ