Navigating Uncertainty (eBook)

Simple Scientific Insights for Everyday Life

Anna L Pereira (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
314 Seiten
Active Inference Cycle (Verlag)
979-8-9933192-2-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In a world defined by rapid change and mounting uncertainty, it's easy to feel unmoored or unsure of how to move forward. This book offers scientific and experiential insights to navigate such times through the interconnected domains of mind, body, and world.

Grounded in the emerging science, this book explores active inference and the free energy principle-concepts that foster cohesion through the ongoing interplay of sensing with our bodies, predicting with our minds, and adapting to our environments. Developed in conversation with one of today's most cited scientists, Karl Friston (the originator and often called the "grandfather" of these principles) these ideas are translated into everyday language. They are brought to life through relatable stories and illustrations, making cutting-edge and robust research both accessible and deeply practical.

Each short chapter offers insights and tools to help recognize patterns, respond with greater clarity, and reconnect with what matters most. The result is a book that is both intellectually stimulating and personally transformative. Approachable, engaging, and rooted in science, this book will leave readers with a renewed sense of possibility and a practical foundation for moving through life's complexities with greater ease.

Inhalt

Table of Contents

1. Finding Harmony Amongst Uncertainty
2. A Story: How This Book Came Into Being
3. Understanding Ourselves Through Physics
4. Charting Your Course
5. The Active Inference Cycle: Our Lived Experience
6. The Free Energy Principle: Seeking Harmony and Dissonance
7. Homeostasis: A Foundation of Life
8. Self-Knowing: Turning Up the Light
9. Adjusting the Zoom and Focus of Our Awareness
10. The Markov Blanket: A Comforting Concept
11. Uncertainty as Opportunity: Benefits of the Unknown
12. An Empathetic Lens
13. Intentions and the Bidirectional Nature of the Brain
14. Willpower vs. Volition
15. Embodiment: A Cohesive Experience
16. Play: Reducing Uncertainty Through Joy
17. A Playground of Possibilities
18. Rest and the Gifts of Intuition
19. The Artist Within the Active Inference Cycle
20. Laying Out Our Palette: Getting to Know Our Volition
21. The Value of Love
22. Deepening Self-Knowledge
23. Safe Containers: The Foundation for Growth and Connection
24. Free Energy in the System: Why Othering Hurts Us All
25. Neurodiversity-A Valuable Human Construct
26. Navigating Religion, Spirituality, and Pitfalls
27. Training Our Bodies for Active Inference
28. Reframing "Truth"
29. The Science Within
30. Hopeful and Noteworthy Applications
31. Getting Creative: Carrying This Forward
32. Self-Knowing: Literally
33. Opportunity for Action

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.10.2025
• Vorwort: Karl J Friston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: Active Inference • navigating uncertainty • Scientific insights
• ISBN-13: 979-8-9933192-2-3 / 9798993319223