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Thomas Parr is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology at the University of Oxford, with a research focus on theoretical neuroscience and computational psychiatry. He is known for his work on the theory of active inference, and is the co-author of Active Inference: with Karl Friston and Giovanni Pezzulo, the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.

Thomas Parr is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Neurology at the University of Oxford, with a research focus on theoretical neuroscience and computational psychiatry. He is known for his work on the theory of active inference, and is the co-author of Active Inference: with Karl Friston and Giovanni Pezzulo, the first comprehensive textbook on the subject.

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