Karl Friston Decodes the Real OODA Loop: Active Inference and What Boyd Got Right

Send us Fan Mail Karl Friston, FRS, is the architect of the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, the formal mathematics that describes how living systems perceive, predict, and engage with their environments under uncertainty. In this conversation, Brian "Ponch" Rivera and Mark McGrath walk Friston through John Boyd’s actual OODA sketch, not the linearized four-box version, and the result is the closest thing yet to a formal validation of what Boyd was reaching for in 1995. The convers...