Paul Middlebrooks

Kathryn Nave is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the University of Edinburgh and author of the book “A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life.” Nave argues that the free energy principle falls short as a unifying framework for living systems and cognition, and instead finds promise in recent concepts in philosophy and theoretical biology—how living systems must be organized in order to survive. Read the transcript.

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An associate editor of Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience has resigned in protest of the publisher’s artificial-intelligence (AI) system, arguing that its misuse is undermining academic integrity at the journal. Michael Okun, associate professor of neuroscience at the University of Nottingham, announced his resignation on social media on 10 June, after journal officials told him they couldn’t turn off AI-related tools that automatically find potential peer reviewers.