A «Inferência Ativa para Ciências Sociais» desenvolve cursos, currículos, pesquisas e escritos que conectam a Inferência Ativa às ciências sociais. O projeto produziu um curso em 2023 e continua construindo recursos educacionais e de pesquisa para cientistas sociais engajados com o framework de Inferência Ativa.
Visão Geral
Este projeto adapta a Inferência Ativa para o público das ciências sociais — desenvolvendo traduções conceituais, materiais de curso e direções de pesquisa. Reconhece que a conta de agência, comunicação e interação social da Inferência Ativa tem implicações profundas para a sociologia, ciência política, economia, antropologia e campos relacionados.
Trabalho Anterior
Um curso de 2023 — "Inferência Ativa para as Ciências Sociais" — foi produzido e está acessível através da infraestrutura de cursos do Instituto. O projeto continua a gerar escrita, pesquisa e currículo.
Descrição do Curso
“Constructing cultural landscapes: Active Inference for the Social Sciences” was a twelve-session participatory course held in 2023, co-organized by Kairos Research and the Active Inference Institute, and led by Avel Guénin-Carlut, Ben White, Mahault Albarracin, Lorena Sganzerla, and Daniel Friedman. It introduced participants to the basic concepts of Active Inference and their relevance to the social sciences, showing how the physical organization of cognitive agents affords the description of their perceptions and actions as enacting a “world-model” that expresses their structural identity — and how that world-model is participatively constructed in human societies, both through alteration of the shared material niche and through integration of social and linguistic norms.
The course was designed for learners of all backgrounds and familiarity with mathematics, physics, and computer science, favoring intuitive meaning over technical formalism, and was organized around five monthly presentation sessions followed by discussion sessions inviting participants to articulate their own reflections. All sessions were recorded and made accessible asynchronously, with transcripts compiled and published.
Perguntas Chave
The course was organized around five key questions: What is it like to exist as an Active Inference agent? What is the relation between cognitive meaning and the material (and social) niche an agent experiences?
How do humans construct, and relate to, a shared cultural reality? What drives the open-ended evolution of norms and institutions?
And what is the relation between the organization of a society and the patterns of its collective cognition?
Participe
Cientistas sociais, educadores e pesquisadores interdisciplinares interessados em conectar a Inferência Ativa aos seus domínios são bem-vindos a contribuir.