The Physics of Motivation | Karl Friston | Inaugural IMOL Online Seminar Series

Karl Friston presents “The Physics of Motivation”, the inaugural seminar of the Intrinsically Motivated and Open-ended Learning (IMOL) Online Seminar Series. This overview of the free energy principle offers an account of embodied exchange with the world that associates neuronal operations with actively inferring the causes of our sensations, linking formal descriptions of dynamical systems to a description of perception in terms of beliefs and goals. The talk closes with the epistemic behaviour that emerges in simulations of active inference. Speaker: Karl J. Friston FRS, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London Recorded: 17 June 2026 (online seminar over Microsoft Teams) Series: IMOL Online Seminar Series, organised by the IMOL Community Community: http://www.imol-community.org/ Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/imol-comm... Captions: AI-generated, checked by the organisers, and still being improved. #IMOL #ActiveInference #FreeEnergyPrinciple #IntrinsicMotivation