Reading up on Richard Feynman

Karl Friston argues that the free‑energy principle explains brain function, consciousness, self‑organization, and life itself by minimizing surprise through variational inference.

Quantum weirdness arises from two core ideas: probabilities that cancel, and particles splitting into phantom copies that trace every possible path until observed.

A personal transcription of 950 pages of notes from Richard Feynman's Hughes Lectures (1966-1971) covering astronomy, QED, and math methods has been made available.