Skip to main content
← Weekly AI Clarity
Episode 22 · Monday, 16 June 2025 · 64 min

Your Brain is a Beautiful Lie | Building AI That Understands Humanity

Thumbnail for the episode Your Brain is a Beautiful Lie | Building AI That Understands Humanity
In this episode

In this episode of the ABCs for Building the Future Podcast, we delve into the boundaries of consciousness and the Markov Blanket concept. We explore questions like where consciousness ends and the rest of the world begins, inspired by Patrick House's book '19 Ways of Looking at Consciousness.' The discussion covers the free energy principle, nested Russian Doll structures, and how these ideas influence our product, Epistemic Me, to model evolving belief systems. We also touch on integrating such advanced theories into practical applications for health and wellness, training AI, and enhancing user experiences through understanding causal structures in Jobs to Be Done.

Links & references

Hosted by Robert Ta and Jonathan McCoy, co-founders of Clarity, reporting from the front lines of building an AI company.

Every week

AI clarity for founders, builders and tech executives. News with real takes, the memes that made us laugh, and the tactical meta we are testing on ourselves.