4 papers
Life as Plasmas: Autonomy and Interactivism in-materio
Nicolás Hinrichs, Mahault Albarracin, Felipe Engelberger +2
When is a material system a candidate for life at all? We argue that this question is prior to behavior, functional architecture, or computational capacity, and that at root it is…
The Conditions of Physical Embodiment Enable Generalization and Care
Leonardo Christov-Moore, Arthur Juliani, Alex Kiefer +7
As artificial agents enter open-ended physical environments -- eldercare, disaster response, and space missions -- they must persist under uncertainty while providing reliable care…
Geometric Hyperscanning of Affect under Active Inference
Nicolas Hinrichs, Mahault Albarracin, Dimitris Bolis +3
Second-person neuroscience holds social cognition as embodied meaning co-regulation through reciprocal interaction, modeled here as coupled active inference with affect emerging as…
Predictive processing frameworks for perception can explain recent drone sightings in the United States
Joel Frohlich, Leonardo Christov-Moore, Nicco Reggente
We draw on the predictive processing theory of perception to explain why healthy, intelligent, honest, and psychologically normal people might easily misperceive lights in the sky…