Thinking like a State - Embodied intelligence in the deep history of our collective minds

me [Music] hello everyone welcome to actinflab live stream number 33.0 it's november 18th 2021 welcome to the actin flab everyone we are a participatory online lab that is communicating and mute if you're not going to be speaking thank you we're a participatory online lab that is communicating learning and practicing applied active inference you can find us at the links here on this slide this is a recorded and an archived live stream so please provide us all with feedback so that we can improve our work all backgrounds and perspectives are welcome here we'll be following good video etiquette for live streams and respecting our awesome facilitator blue at this short link you can find the streams past and upcoming and we are about to be heading into the second half of november 2021 where on the 23rd and the 30th we'll have two participatory group discussions on this very paper we're going to discuss today thinking like a state and then we have yet to set the december papers so if you know someone who might be interested in joining or you yourself would like to discuss a paper of yours get in touch with us today in active stream 33.0 the goal is to learn and discuss this paper thinking like a state embodied intelligence in the deep history of our collective minds by aval guinin kalu and the video like all zero videos even though we do have the author here it's just an introduction to some of the ideas and how to pronounce them not a review or a final word so we'll introduce ourselves and then go into aims and claims abstract and roadmap keywords figures and formalisms etc so let us know especially if you'd like to participate in the upcoming 33.1 and 33.2 we'll start with just an introduction of saying hello and what we're excited to talk about or resolve either in the dot zero or in the upcoming group discussions and then we'll culminate with the author and transfer facilitation over so i'm daniel i'm a researcher in california and i'm just excited to check in on the progress of this important topic people have been theorizing about societies and cities and states and everything in between since as long as they were there probably a little bit before so it's just a fun topic and i'm really excited to see how active inference can give a new lens at resolving some of the long-standing questions in that area i'll pass it to stephen yeah thank you daniel um i'm steve and i'm based in toronto and uh i'm really interested in the multi-scale implications of state and niche construction particularly for me because i'm interested in working around what i call social topographies which is probably at the scale of events and moments in people's like lived experience and in their architectures and places so i i'm really excited that this is bringing in this idea of state and larger scale but also bridging that with active inference from the kind of faster smaller scale so yeah lots of good stuff here lots of ontological questions as well which i think is really cool um and uh i passed it over should i pass it over to blue blue or sharp yep over to you so i'm blue i'm an independent research consultant in new mexico and i really like this paper and i really like working and talking with avell about ideas because these ideas are kind of at a bigger scale i am interested in self-assembly of things like at the cellular and maybe even subcellular level and like this takes it to the very big level and i think that active inference really kind of unifies this it's a skill-free framework and so that's kind of what i'm excited to talk about today and maybe not resolve but discuss and get some other perspectives on um and i'll pass it to the first author of the paper or the only author of the paper avail if you'd like to just introduce yourself say a few words so i'm available i have a training in collective science and physics mainly i'm interested in philosophy and a lot of things what we learned here is that i funded and helped organize cairo's…