Principles of Vasocomputation

https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation-a-unification-of-buddhist-phenomenology-active-inference-and-physical-reflex-part-i/

#HackerNews #PrinciplesOfVasocomputation #BuddhistPhenomenology #ActiveInference #PhysicalReflex #OpenTheory

New paper! "Multimodality and its Relation to Construct-Object Theory"

#psychoanalysis #psychology #mentalmodels #cognition

#autism #schizophrenia

#philosophy #philosophyofmind #ontology #epistemology #semiotics

#innovation #imitation

#activeinference

#theory

https://www.authorea.com/users/854182/articles/1338869-multimodality-and-its-relation-to-construct-object-theory?commit=e9f85ba4accfbf4bbb9cb13cec05e500134d6b9a

Robots evolve from rigid tools to adaptive teammates with VERSES AI’s Active Inference, enabling real-time reasoning, safety, and collaboration. https://hackernoon.com/verses-ai-just-changes-robotics-forever-with-active-inference-breakthrough #activeinference

The Dancing Brain: Exploring Enactive & Eco-Social Psychiatry for a Holistic Mind-Environment Connection

#EnactivePsychiatry #EcoSocialMind #ActiveInference #Neuroscience #MentalHealth #HolisticHealing #SensoryIntegration #PredictiveProcessing #DigitalPsychiatry #CulturalContext #EnvironmentalPsychology #BioSocioCultural #MentalWellness #SelfCreatingSystems #InnovativeTherapies

https://youtube.com/shorts/6rrMgoae56c?feature=share

Interested in the Spatial Web, A.I. & the #Verses #Friston #activeinference team? Then the place to go is
@deniseholt_
and her excellent Substack. More on this transition and what it means for individual and public life on Love & Philosophy: https://youtu.be/7TGpnVLEI_k?si=EofRKJNofxP7eUuG

Andrea Hiott & Daniel Ari Friedman discuss #cognition, perception, action, #ActiveInference. The reflective and philosophical conversation centers on the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience & environmental interaction, and comes to 'service' & 'love' by the end

Yesterday I gave a talk at the 3rd annual Active Inference Symposium. If, by some cosmic coincidence, you too are interested in applications of 18th century epistemology to symbolic machine learning in robots... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeyvHSAwmk&ab_channel=ActiveInferenceInstitute
#ActiveInference #prolog #kant #robotics

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#inference #ActiveInference #sensory #prediction #PredictionErrors #expectation #interpretation #illusion #perception #ColorPerception #TheDress #PerceptualPrediction #neurodiversity #PerceptionCensus #ChatGPT #anthropomorphism #VegetativeState #AnimalWelfare #AnimalRights #suffering

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#rationality #ethics #ReflexiveReasoning #DeliberateReasoning #MathematicalReasoning #Minerva #FormalReasoning #knowledge #WorldKnowledge #modeling #SituationModeling #SocialReasoning #infohazardous #grounding #ContinuousGrounding #misalignment #transformers #GPT #GPT3 #GPT4 #VLM #VisualLanguageModels #causality #semantics #agents #EmbodiedAgents #curious #curiousity #intent #intentionality #inference #ActiveInference #metaphysics #distraction

A review on different applications of control ideas to neuroscience, #motorcontrol and #decisionmaking, using in particular #controltheory and #perceptual #control.

The description of perceptual control seems suspiciously close to Friston's #activeinference...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-023-00691-z

To be alive means constantly making sense of a world that nourishes you but can also kill you. That's whether you're a bacterium or a whale.

Without sense making, a living being can't adjust its behavior to changing circumstances. Without sense making, death would come swiftly.

There is no life without cognition. #BasalCognition #ActiveInference

We’ll soon be advertising a #postdoc position. Work at intersection between #computational and #experimental #neuroscience. #cogneurojobs #activeinference #multisensory

#ActiveInference opens up promising new paths toward Artificial Intelligence https://twitter.com/mjdramstead/status/1599579403091968002?s=12&t=UWwZdd58HlQSPcdaQRLzUw

@DrYohanJohn
Agreed - such hypes are often trends recycled. Revisiting ideas is good science though. What I dislike is when so-called "new ideas" ignore prior ideas and science. Ecological psychology, active perception, enaction (and others?) came before active inference. Prediction and control solve the same conceptual insight as the so called "free energy principle" only without the Bayesian framework that might nudge our modelling along?
#cognition #activeinference #prediction #control

I was exposed to the importance of interaction between top-down and bottom-up neural/cognitive processes early on (I did my PhD in the department Steve Grossberg started), so I am slightly amused and baffled by the hype surrounding #PredictiveProcessing and/or #ActiveInference.

It suggests that David Hume's idea that all knowledge comes from the outside world has had way too long a half-life in biology.

#Neuroscience #Philosophy

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Hi folks!

I make #electronics and write code and help people solve interesting problems. I wrote a book on #LEGO and Arduino projects. I made a lot of open source hardware electronics kits (see Wayne and Layne), worked with Dessa, and am currently nerding out over #ActiveInference, #EmbodiedCognition, and #CognitiveNeuroscience. I write a bunch of code over at Beeminder, helping folks achieve their goals.

I love to #dance, read, and spend time with my wife and my two kids.

Well this is exciting... my #introduction: I am a #psychiatrist and #neuroscientist at #UCL studying #psychosis and #schizophrenia mainly - I use #computationalpsychiatry methods to try to infer neurobiological changes from brain imaging data, and also to understand how cognitive processes going awry could lead to symptoms like delusions and hallucinations. I'm also interested in so-called #functionalsymptoms, #AI, #OCD, #machinelearning, #activeinference and lots of arty stuff too...

I presented "Towards a symbolic implementation of Active Inference for Lego robots" at the 2nd Applied Active Inference Symposium https://youtu.be/dTVHHenms_Y?t=6110 #ActiveInference

#Introduction time.

TL;dr: maths to formally study #agents, #worldmodels and #representations

I'm currently a Chief Researcher at Araya, a Tokyo based startup with the goal to understand (artificial) #consciousness.

My work focuses on general principles for the #origins of #agency, #life and #cognition. I previously used the #freeenergyprinciple (+ #activeinference) as my main framework, but I'm now looking into other directions, mostly using #categorytheory applied to #systemstheory.

I just created a Fediverse GROUP on complex systems.
Follow @complexsystems on Mastodon & Co
and mention the group in related messages/toots.
#complexsystems #selforganization #networks #memory #activeinference