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A small selection of videos are listed below, based around “Active Inference and....” different topics. This is just a preliminary sampling or sorting, so if you are interested in contributing or learning more, please get in touch.

Active Inference and....

Free Energy Principle & Bayesian Mechanics

• Livestream #049 on “A Worked Example of the Bayesian Mechanics of Classical Objects” (049.0 context video, 049.1 and 049.2 with author).

• Livestream #045 on “The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple” (045.0 context video, 045.1 and 045.2 with author).

• Livestream #026 Bayesian Mechanics for Stationary Processes (026.0 context video, 026.1 and 026.2 with author).

Machine Learning

• Livestream #052 on “Geometric Methods for Sampling, Optimisation, Inference and Adaptive Agents” (052.0 context video, 052.1 and 052.2 with author).

• Livestream #051 on “Canonical neural networks perform active inference“ (051.0 context video, 051.1 and 051.2 with author).

Computational modeling

• ModelStream #007 on pymdp, python package for Active Inference generative models (007.1 and 007.2 walkthrough videos).

• ModelStream #001 on “A step-by-step tutorial on active inference and its application to empirical data“ (001.1, 001.2, 001.3, 001.4)

• GuestStream #024.1 on “Explainable and Reliable AI” with Stephen Grossberg

Psychology

• Livestream #046 on “Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology” (046.0 context video, 046.1 and 046.2 with author).

• GuestStream #025.1 with Brett Anderson on “Autistic-Like Traits and Positive Schizotypy as Diametric Specializations of the Predictive Mind“

Philosophy

• Livestream #036 “Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation” (036.0 context video, 036.1 and 036.2 with author).

• Livestream #035 on “A tale of two architectures free energy, its models, and modularity” (035.0 context video, 035.1 and 035.2 with author).

• GuestStream #027.1 with John Vervaeke

Biology

• Livestream #050 on “Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control” (050.0 context video, 050.1 and 050.2 with author).

• Livestream #044 on “Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Synchrony“ (044.0 context video, 044.1 and 044.2 with authors).

• Livestream #039.0 on “Morphogenesis as Bayesian inference: A variational approach to pattern formation and control in complex biological systems”  (039.0 context video, 039.1 and 039.2 with author).

• Livestream #038 on “The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference” (038.0 context video, 038.1 and 038.2 discussions).

• Livestream #029 on “Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior” (029.0 context video, 029.1 and 029.2 with author).

Sociology

• Livestream #053 on “Snakes and Ladders in Paleoanthropology & To copy or not to copy…“ (053.0 context video, 053.1 and 053.2 with authors).

• Livestream #048 on “Communication as Socially Extended Active Inference: An Ecological Approach to Communicative Behavior” (048.0 context video, 048.1 and 048.2 with author).

• Livestream #047 on “Enactive-Dynamic Social Cognition and Active Inference” and “Active Inference and Abduction” (047.0 context video, 047.1 and 047.2 with author).

• GuestStream #035.1 with Jordan Hall & Matthew Pirkowski

• GuestStream #030.1 on “The Human Governance Problem: Complex Systems and the Limits of Human Cognition” with Kyrtin Atreides

Quantum 

• Livestream #040 on “A free energy principle for generic quantum systems” (040.0 context video, 040.1 and 040.2 with authors).

• Livestream #017 on “Information flow in context-dependent hierarchical Bayesian inference” (017.0 context video, 017.1 and 017.2 with authors).

Robotics

• Livestream #042 on “Robot navigation as hierarchical active inference”  (042.0 context video, 042.1 and 042.2 with authors).

• Applied Active Inference Symposium on “Robotics” from 2022 (direct link to Program)

Livestream Discussions

Livestream discussions are centered around research articles that deal with Active Inference, Free Energy Principle, and related topics