# Darius Parvizi Wayne

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#98 John Vervaeke on Love, Attention and Meaning with Darius Parvizi Wayne (and Iris Murdoch)

Send a love message This is a coversation between John Vervaeke and Darius Parvizi-Wayne introduced by Andrea Hiott. On Love, Attention, and the Good: Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke (University of Toronto) and philosopher Darius Parvizi-Wayne (Macquarie University) talk about love as a way of pa…

Existentialism and Artificial Intelligence

Michael Wheeler is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling, specializing in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. He is the author of the influential book Reconstructing the Cognitive World (2005) and is known for his Heideggerian approach to…

Phenomenology, Mathematics & Dreydegger (w/ Jeffrey Yoshimi & Darius Parvizi-Wayne)

Prof Jeffrey Yoshimi is a professor in the departments of Cognitive and Information Sciences and Philosophy at UC Merced. He studies the relationship between the dynamics of consciousness and the dynamics of neural activity in an embodied brain. As part of this, Prof Yoshimi models neural networks,…

Exploring the Mind: John Vervaeke on Relevance Realization and Consciousness

In Episode 3 of the "Active Inference Insights" series, host Darius Parvizi-Wayne welcomes John Vervaeke for an insightful discussion bridging cognitive science and philosophy. The episode delves into topics like relevance realization, evolutionary processes in cognition, and understanding cultural…

Episode 4 Darius Parvizi Wayne - Active Inference, Phenomenology & Flow States

In this episode of the Adaptive Coach podcast, Jon Mackey engages with Darius Parvizi-Wayne to explore the Active Inference Framework, a concept that integrates cognitive science, philosophy, and psychology. The conversation delves into 4E cognition, predictive processing, and the role of action in…

Karl Friston ~ Active Inference Insights 001 ~ Free Energy, Time, Consciousness

In this first episode of Active Inference Insights, Darius Parvizi-Wayne sits down with the chief architect of active inference, Karl Friston. Professor Friston is a theoretician working University College London, Chief Scientist at the artificial intelligence company VERSES, and the most highly ci…

Active Inference, Psychopathology & the Nature of Self | Darius Parvizi-Wayne (EP 51)

Darius Parvizi-Wayne is a philosopher of cognitive science and host of the Active Inference Insights podcast. What are the best theories in cognitive science and how are they helping us understand the mind, the self, psychopathology and well-being? Find out in this podcast. Expect to learn abo…

John Vervaeke ~ Active Inference Insights 003 ~ Relevance Realisation, Predictive Processing, Flow

The Active Inference Institute is absolutely thrilled to bring you this third episode of Active Inference Insights with our host, Darius Parvizi-Wayne, and his esteemed guest, John Vervaeke. John is a cognitive scientist at the University of Toronto and is a leading intellectual in the fields of in…

Love, Attention & Meaning with John Vervaeke (and Iris Murdoch)

On Love, Attention, and the Good: Cognitive scientist John Vervaeke (University of Toronto) and philosopher Darius Parvizi-Wayne (Macquarie University) talk about love as a way of paying attention, starting from Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good. They discuss John’s idea that getting out of th…

The Problem with Frames: Metaphysics, Ethics, and Agency

Timothy Jackson, Darius Parvizi-Wayne, and I got together to discuss Darius’ recent article, “What Active Inference Still Can’t Do: The (Frame) Problem that Just Won’t Go Away” (2025). The frame problem was our intended target, but the subject kept widening. Front and center was the relation betwee…