Navigating Uncertainty
Anna L Pereira
We live in a time of rapid change and what can feel like relentless uncertainty. Against this backdrop, the future often feels uncertain, leaving us searching for a path forward. This book offers strategies for navigating these times, beginning with ourselves and extending outward. Shaped in collaboration with one of the most cited scientists of our time, rooted in robust science (specifically active inference and free energy), and told through approachable stories, it provides a practical foundation for making sense of today’s complexity. Across these chapters, you’ll find tools to better understand an uncertain world and to move through it with greater clarity, resilience, and connection.
Duration - 6h 52m.
Author - Anna L Pereira.
Narrator - Deborah McBride.
Published Date - Thursday, 16 January 2025.
Copyright - © 2025 Active Inference LLC ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
We live in a time of rapid change and what can feel like relentless uncertainty. Against this backdrop, the future often feels uncertain, leaving us searching for a path forward. This book offers strategies for navigating these times, beginning with ourselves and extending outward. Shaped in collaboration with one of the most cited scientists of our time, rooted in robust science (specifically active inference and free energy), and told through approachable stories, it provides a practical foundation for making sense of today’s complexity. Across these chapters, you’ll find tools to better understand an uncertain world and to move through it with greater clarity, resilience, and connection. Duration - 6h 52m. Author - Anna L Pereira. Narrator - Deborah McBride. Published Date - Thursday, 16 January 2025. Copyright - © 2025 Active Inference LLC ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:18
Dedication
Duration:00:00:14
Foreword
Duration:00:08:44
Chapter 1: Finding Harmony Amongst Uncertainty
Duration:00:03:29
Chapter 2: A Story (How This Book Came Into Being)
Duration:00:06:15
Chapter 3: Understanding Ourselves Through Physics
Duration:00:06:57
Chapter 4: Charting Your Course
Duration:00:03:02
Chapter 5: The Active Inference Cycle (Our Lived Experience)
Duration:00:06:20
Chapter 6: The Free Energy Principle (Seeking Harmony & Dissonance)
Duration:00:06:36
Chapter 7: Homeostasis (A Foundation of Life)
Duration:00:06:34
Chapter 8: Self-Knowing (Turning Up the Light)
Duration:00:15:40
Chapter 9: Adjusting the Zoom and Focus of Our Awareness
Duration:00:06:55
Chapter 10: The Markov Blanket (A Comforting Concept)
Duration:00:07:56
Chapter 11: Uncertainty as Opportunity (Benefits of the Unknown)
Duration:00:06:11
Chapter 12: An Empathetic Lens (How Surprise and Uncertainty Affect Connection)
Duration:00:17:34
Chapter 13: Intentions and the Bidirectional Nature of the Brain
Duration:00:10:05
Chapter 14: Willpower vs. Volition (A More Effective Use of Our Finite Energy)
Duration:00:12:37
Chapter 15: Embodiment (A Cohesive Experience)
Duration:00:10:46
Chapter 16: Play (Reducing Uncertainty Through Joy)
Duration:00:07:56
Chapter 17: A Playground of Possibilities (Discovering a New Place Within)
Duration:00:06:20
Chapter 18: Rest and the Gifts of Intuition
Duration:00:09:34
Chapter 19: The Artist Within the Active Inference Cycle
Duration:00:11:55
Chapter 20: Laying Out Our Palette (Getting to Know Our Volition)
Duration:00:18:37
Chapter 21: The Value of Love (A Guide for Understanding and Connection)
Duration:00:22:24
Chapter 22: Deepening Self-Knowledge (Understanding the Mind’s Layers)
Duration:00:29:03
Chapter 23: Safe Containers (The Foundation for Growth and Connection)
Duration:00:36:02
Chapter 24: Free Energy in the System (Why Othering Hurts Us All)
Duration:00:09:38
Chapter 25: Neurodiversity—A Valuable Human Construct
Duration:00:26:57
Chapter 26: Navigating Religion, Spirituality, and Pitfalls
Duration:00:14:51
Chapter 27: Training Our Bodies for Active Inference
Duration:00:12:17
Chapter 28: Reframing "Truth" (Understanding the Limitations of Our Perceptions)
Duration:00:11:05
Chapter 29: The Science Within (Believing in Our Built-In Capabilities)
Duration:00:09:24
Chapter 30: Hopeful and Noteworthy Applications
Duration:00:10:36
Chapter 31: Getting Creative (Carrying This Forward)
Duration:00:25:07
Chapter 32: Self-Knowing (Literally)
Duration:00:07:13
Chapter 33: Opportunity for Action
Duration:00:06:39
Acknowledgements
Duration:00:00:40
Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:23