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Dynamic Markov Blanket Detection for Macroscopic Physics Discovery
Jeff Beck, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead
The free energy principle (FEP), along with the associated constructs of Markov blankets and ontological potentials, have recently been presented as the core components of a genera…
Noumenal Labs White Paper: How To Build A Brain
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Candice Pattisapu, Jason Fox +1
This white paper describes some of the design principles for artificial or machine intelligence that guide efforts at Noumenal Labs. These principles are drawn from both nature and…
A Rosetta Stone Hypothesis for Neurophenomenology: Mathematical Predictions from Predictive Processing
Lancelot Da Costa, Anil K. Seth, Karl Friston +2
Consciousness science faces the challenge of bridging first-person experience with third-person empirical measurements. Neurophenomenology aims to build such `generative passages'…
Active Inference and Intentional Behaviour
Karl J. Friston, Tommaso Salvatori, Takuya Isomura +10
Recent advances in theoretical biology suggest that basal cognition and sentient behaviour are emergent properties of in vitro cell cultures and neuronal networks, respectively. Su…
The inner screen model of consciousness: applying the free energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer +4
This paper presents a model of consciousness that follows directly from the free-energy principle (FEP). We first rehearse the classical and quantum formulations of the FEP. In par…
One person's modus ponens...: Comment on "The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference" by Raja and colleagues (2021)
Maxwell J. D Ramstead
In this comment on "The Markov blanket trick: On the scope of the free energy principle and active inference" by Raja and colleagues (2021) in Physics of Life Reviews, I argue that…
Mapping Husserlian phenomenology onto active inference
Mahault Albarracin, Riddhi J. Pitliya, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead +1
Phenomenology is the rigorous descriptive study of conscious experience. Recent attempts to formalize Husserlian phenomenology provide us with a mathematical model of perception as…
Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Casper Hesp, Alec Tschantz +3
The aim of this paper is to leverage the free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference, to develop a generic, generalizable model of the representational…
Cognition coming about: self-organisation and free-energy
Ines Hipolito, Maxwell Ramstead, Axel Constant +1
Wright and Bourkes compelling article rightly points out that existing models of embryogenesis fail to explain the mechanisms and functional significance of the dynamic connections…
A World unto Itself: Human Communication as Active Inference
Jared Vasil, Paul B. Badcock, Axel Constant +2
Work in developmental psychology suggests that humans are predisposed to align their mental states with other individuals. This manifests principally in cooperative communication,…