ActInfLab ~ 2022 Quarterly Roundtable #2
https://youtu.be/2s27lSZDqGM
June 29, 2022.
Our most recent quarterly roundtable meeting.
https://youtu.be/2s27lSZDqGM
June 29, 2022.
Our most recent quarterly roundtable meeting.
All past and upcoming livestreams:
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December 2022 Newsletter from the Active Inference Institute:
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/december-2022-newsletter-active-inference?
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/december-2022-newsletter-active-inference?
February 2023 Newsletter 🐃🎨🧭 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/february-2023-newsletter-active-inference?
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/february-2023-newsletter-active-inference?
From May through October 2023, the Active Inference Institute will host a course by Chris Fields (https://chrisfieldsresearch.com/), "Physics as Information Processing".
The course is free and online. There will be 6 Lectures, alternating with 6 participatory discussions facilitated by Ander Aguirre.
All materials and information on the course can be found at https://www.activeinference.org/education/Physics-Fields-2023
All sessions will be recorded and available at this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNm0u2n1Iwdq0UnnnnkUr446lUz00x6E7
The course denoscription is below:
This six-session course will introduce participants to thinking about physical interaction as communication, and hence thinking about physical systems as communicating agents. It will show how the free-energy principle (FEP) and the idea of active inference apply to all physical systems, regardless of scale, subject only to constraints of conditional statistical independence or separability. It will investigate these constraints, their implementations, and their limits.
The course will introduce the formal methods of quantum information theory (QIT) and show how they relate to classical information theory. These methods will be employed as thinking tools, not calculating tools. A background in quantum theory or statistical physics will be useful but is not required; basic physics and some familiarity with linear algebra – vectors and operators – will be helpful. We will be discussing various abstract concepts, but with a focus on their intuitive meaning, not their formal structure No coding will be required, though anyone inclined in this direction will see many opportunities for model building.
There will be one “live” presentation session and one live discussion session per month, together with asynchronous Q&A and discussion. All sessions will be recorded and accessible asynchronously.
The course is free and online. There will be 6 Lectures, alternating with 6 participatory discussions facilitated by Ander Aguirre.
All materials and information on the course can be found at https://www.activeinference.org/education/Physics-Fields-2023
All sessions will be recorded and available at this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNm0u2n1Iwdq0UnnnnkUr446lUz00x6E7
The course denoscription is below:
This six-session course will introduce participants to thinking about physical interaction as communication, and hence thinking about physical systems as communicating agents. It will show how the free-energy principle (FEP) and the idea of active inference apply to all physical systems, regardless of scale, subject only to constraints of conditional statistical independence or separability. It will investigate these constraints, their implementations, and their limits.
The course will introduce the formal methods of quantum information theory (QIT) and show how they relate to classical information theory. These methods will be employed as thinking tools, not calculating tools. A background in quantum theory or statistical physics will be useful but is not required; basic physics and some familiarity with linear algebra – vectors and operators – will be helpful. We will be discussing various abstract concepts, but with a focus on their intuitive meaning, not their formal structure No coding will be required, though anyone inclined in this direction will see many opportunities for model building.
There will be one “live” presentation session and one live discussion session per month, together with asynchronous Q&A and discussion. All sessions will be recorded and accessible asynchronously.
March 2023 Newsletter 🎢 🫠💮 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/march-2023-newsletter-active-inference
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/march-2023-newsletter-active-inference
"Blockference: an Open Source Package for Cognitive Modeling in Web3"
https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0x6e8dc2e623204d61b0e59e668702654ae336c9f7/0x6e8dc2e623204d61b0e59e668702654ae336c9f7-13
Gitcoin grant now open, 14 days to support this and other #deSci projects!
More information on Active Blockference:
https://activeinference.org/research/active-blockference
https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/ActiveBlockference
https://zenodo.org/record/7484994# "An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons"
We are interested to collaborate on this project, directly on Active Blockference (people wanting to learn and apply Active Inference modeling), or in partnership (maybe a use case, or how you suggest)
https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/1/0x6e8dc2e623204d61b0e59e668702654ae336c9f7/0x6e8dc2e623204d61b0e59e668702654ae336c9f7-13
Gitcoin grant now open, 14 days to support this and other #deSci projects!
More information on Active Blockference:
https://activeinference.org/research/active-blockference
https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/ActiveBlockference
https://zenodo.org/record/7484994# "An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons"
We are interested to collaborate on this project, directly on Active Blockference (people wanting to learn and apply Active Inference modeling), or in partnership (maybe a use case, or how you suggest)
April 2023 Newsletter
Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/april-2023-newsletter-active-inference
Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/april-2023-newsletter-active-inference
May 2023 Newsletter 🌊📢🦌 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/may-2023-newsletter-active-inference
Many exciting updates and opportunities for engagement with the growing Active Inference ecosystem.
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/may-2023-newsletter-active-inference
Many exciting updates and opportunities for engagement with the growing Active Inference ecosystem.
Our paper has been published in final form in Entropy!
https://mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/7/964
"A Variational Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics"
Karl Friston, Daniel A. Friedman, Axel Constant, V. Bleu Knight, Chris Fields, Thomas Parr, John O. Campbell
Keywords: self-organisation; nonequilibrium; variational inference; Bayesian; particular partition; evolution; natural selection; Markov blanket; renormalisation group
Compared with the previous pre-print, we've added some discussion of applications & a numerical simulation of multiscale learning in a neural system.
This is a very exciting step towards synthesis of Active Inference & Free Energy Principle, with Ecology/Evolution/Development and Complex Systems approaches to Biology.
https://mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/7/964
"A Variational Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics"
Karl Friston, Daniel A. Friedman, Axel Constant, V. Bleu Knight, Chris Fields, Thomas Parr, John O. Campbell
Keywords: self-organisation; nonequilibrium; variational inference; Bayesian; particular partition; evolution; natural selection; Markov blanket; renormalisation group
Compared with the previous pre-print, we've added some discussion of applications & a numerical simulation of multiscale learning in a neural system.
This is a very exciting step towards synthesis of Active Inference & Free Energy Principle, with Ecology/Evolution/Development and Complex Systems approaches to Biology.
New course announcement at the Institute, from July-November 2023!
"Constructing cultural landscapes: Active Inference for the Social Sciences"
Avel Guénin-Carlut, Ben White, Mahault Albarracin, Lorena Sganzerla, Daniel Friedman
A participatory online course in 2023 co-organized by Kairos Research and the Active Inference Institute
https://twitter.com/InferenceActive/status/1673455622921256962
https://www.activeinference.org/education/active-inference-for-the-social-sciences
View comprehensive course details on the public page https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023
Follow the Course Syllabus for session insights and recordings https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023/course-syllabus-2
Submit your inquiries at Questions & Answers https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023/questions-answers-3
Be a part of the live-streamed dialogues by Registering now! https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023/register-to-join-discussions-4
"Constructing cultural landscapes: Active Inference for the Social Sciences"
Avel Guénin-Carlut, Ben White, Mahault Albarracin, Lorena Sganzerla, Daniel Friedman
A participatory online course in 2023 co-organized by Kairos Research and the Active Inference Institute
https://twitter.com/InferenceActive/status/1673455622921256962
https://www.activeinference.org/education/active-inference-for-the-social-sciences
View comprehensive course details on the public page https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023
Follow the Course Syllabus for session insights and recordings https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023/course-syllabus-2
Submit your inquiries at Questions & Answers https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023/questions-answers-3
Be a part of the live-streamed dialogues by Registering now! https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/active-inference-social-science-aii-2023/register-to-join-discussions-4
Below are services and products that the Active Inference Institute provides to the Ecosystem.
https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/aii-onboarding/ecosystem-9
https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/aii-onboarding/ecosystem-9
Join us for the 3rd Applied Active Inference Symposium, "Enacting Ecosystems of Shared Intelligence" on August 22, 2023!
We have an amazing lineup of presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions, featuring: Karl Friston, Inês Hipólito, Conor Heins, Mahault Albarracin, Anna Lembke, Aswin Paul, Takuya Isomura, Shanna Dobson, Bert de Vries, Dmitry Bagaev, Bart van Erp, Caspar Montgomery, Rafael Kaufmann, Avel Guénin-Carlut, Pablo Fernandez-Maquieira, and Guillaume Dumas.
See the Program: https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/3rd-applied-active-inference-symposium/program-4
Free Registration: https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/3rd-applied-active-inference-symposium/registration-2
We have an amazing lineup of presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions, featuring: Karl Friston, Inês Hipólito, Conor Heins, Mahault Albarracin, Anna Lembke, Aswin Paul, Takuya Isomura, Shanna Dobson, Bert de Vries, Dmitry Bagaev, Bart van Erp, Caspar Montgomery, Rafael Kaufmann, Avel Guénin-Carlut, Pablo Fernandez-Maquieira, and Guillaume Dumas.
See the Program: https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/3rd-applied-active-inference-symposium/program-4
Free Registration: https://coda.io/@active-inference-institute/3rd-applied-active-inference-symposium/registration-2
July 2023 Newsletter 🧠➿🦾 Active Inference Institute
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/july-2023-newsletter-active-inference
https://activeinferenceinstitute.substack.com/p/july-2023-newsletter-active-inference