Philosophers, cognitive scientists, humanists, and anyone interested in the intersection of science and human narrative.
Producing an account of human self-understanding through the lens of Active Inference and free energy.
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Humanity's Story of an Uncertain Self is an Ecosystem project developing a broad account of human self-knowledge as an inference problem. Drawing on Active Inference, it examines how humans construct and maintain stories about themselves as agents in an uncertain world.
The project produces an integrated account of human self-understanding from the perspective of Active Inference — combining philosophical analysis, cognitive science, and narrative theory to examine how agents model themselves and generate coherent self-narratives under uncertainty.
Philosophers, cognitive scientists, humanists, and narrative researchers 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.