Philosophers, AI researchers, and consciousness scientists interested in machine sentience and phenomenology.
Exploring the conditions for and implications of sentience in artificial systems through an Active Inference lens.
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Artificial Sentience is an Ecosystem project examining the theoretical conditions for sentience in artificial systems. Drawing on Active Inference, it explores what it would mean for a machine to be sentient, using the free energy principle as a framework for understanding experience and self-organization.
The project develops theoretical accounts of sentience using Active Inference — examining whether and how the formal properties of active inference systems relate to phenomenal experience. It connects philosophy of mind, computational neuroscience, and AI research.
Philosophers, neuroscientists, and AI researchers interested in consciousness and Active Inference are welcome.
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External links are resolved from the shared registry so visitor-facing destinations stay centralized and checkable.
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Primary public community channel for conversation, coordination, and newcomer orientation.
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Public ecosystem shortlink for Institute context, projects, activities, and conceptual maps.
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Public GitHub organization for Institute repositories and open-source work.
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Project repository for multiagent Active Inference modeling work.
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Generalized Notation Notation project repository for model communication.
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Geospatial modeling repository connected to ecological and bioregional applications.
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Research and publication-oriented repository for the Active Inference Journal.
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Public Project Preparation shortlink for making proposed work legible and actionable.
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Public project measurement shortlink for reporting progress and outputs.
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Public Active Inference Ontology shortlink for shared conceptual infrastructure.
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External paper repository surfaced from the official research page.
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Reachable arXiv reference surfaced from the official research page.
Official pages
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Official research entry point, currently resolving to the research overview.
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Official research overview page.
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Official Knowledge Engineering page.
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Official Active Blockference page.
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Official theoretical neurobiology page.
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Public projects shortlink for project directories and activity-linked work.
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Public project measurement shortlink for reporting progress and outputs.
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Public Active Inference Ontology shortlink for shared conceptual infrastructure.
Repositories
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Computational meta-analysis of Active Inference literature with nanopublication and knowledge-graph outputs.
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Ontology-oriented repository for shared Active Inference concepts and decentralized science knowledge infrastructure.
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Notebook-based applied Active Inference work connected to blockchain-adjacent and generative modeling examples.
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Python models and materials for ant-inspired multiagent Active Inference.
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Active Inference & Category Theory
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Public content repository for the Active Inference Journal and related publication infrastructure.
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Active Entity Ontology for Science
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Public ants repository in the ActiveInferenceInstitute GitHub namespace.