Kate Knave
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and author of A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life, specializing in philosophy of cognitive science and bio-enactivist critiques of the Free Energy Principle.
Best podcasts with Kate Knave
Ranked by the Snipd community
Apr 10, 2026 • 56min
Kathryn Nave, "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (MIT Press, 2025)
Kate Knave, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow at Edinburgh and author of A Drive to Survive, challenges the Free Energy framework from a bioenactivist perspective. She contrasts metabolism-driven autopoiesis with sensor-guided movementism. Topics include cybernetics, predictive processing, individuation, constraint closure, and applying organismal ideas to ecosystems and designed environments.
Apr 10, 2026 • 56min
Kathryn Nave, "A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life" (MIT Press, 2025)
Kate Knave, a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellow and author, challenges predictive processing and the Free Energy Principle. She contrasts sensor-guided control with bio-enactivism, arguing metabolism and self-production shape intentional action. Short, sharp takes on autopoiesis, constraint-closure, and why living systems resist mere stability models.
