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Andrius Applied Active Inference 2024
for the 2024 Applied Active Inference Symposium. Due by October 3.
Andrius Kulikauskas: I am working on my abstract:
I look forward to talking with you on Tuesday and hearing your thoughts about the category theory conference. Also, please, I look forward to your comments and suggestions on my draft below. Is it in the spirit of the symposium? Andrius
@Daniel Ari Friedman
What do you think of this draft? I appreciate your comments and suggestions. Andrius
@Daniel Ari Friedman
Exploring How to Reconcile Enactive, Predictive and Cybernetic Inference With Super Division Algebras and Bott Periodicity
The Active Inference textbook (2022 Section 3.7) highlights the reconciliation of conflicting theories of sentience - enactive, predictive, cybernetic. This inspires further exploration. These three schools of thought can be compared with dozens of analogous trichotomies in intellectual history which describe the inner tensions within human experience. They can be generalized as an enactive mind that unconsciously knows answers, a predictive mind that conciously does not know, thus asks questions, and a cybernetic mind, consciousness, that brings to agreement the other two minds and either lets enaction update circumstances or has prediction update beliefs. Biologically, enaction is the champion of a network of millions of neurons, enmeshed in the world, and prediction is the champion of a language of thousands of concepts, divorced from the world, delineating the organism. What is the absolutely minimal structural pattern, the cybernetic consciousness, which encodes and faciliates active inference between these two champions, as in perhaps the dialogue between two brain hemispheres, whether in octopuses or vertebrates? Super division algebras are pairs of division algebras which can be understood to model the same experience in three ways: as raw experience (the even elements), as contextualized experience (the odd elements) and as their equivalence (by a distinctive automorphism). There are three division algebras (real numbers, complex numbers, quaternions) and the automorphisms yield ten super division algebras. Eightfold and twofold Bott periodicity cycle through these ten super division algebras. Eight are mental contexts, “divisions of everything”, carving up the mental workspace into perspectives, yielding inner dialogues. Existence contrasts free will and fate. Learning cycles through resolution, execution, reflection. Knowledge prioritizes whether, what, how, why. Enactive, predictive, cybernetic outlooks add one, two, three perspectives, respectively, to contexts, yielding meta contexts, modulo 8, traversing an eight-cycle. This suggests that active inference occurs in parallel enactively, predictively, cybernetically.
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Where enactive, predictive, cybernetic come up in the textbook.
** Active Inference inherits from a f?ree energy princi?ple that equates existence with self-?evidencing and self-?evidencing with an enactive sort of inference.
** Imagine a ?simple creature that must solve prob?lems like finding food or shelter. When cast as Active Inference, the creature’s prob?lems can be described in enactive terms, as acting to solicit preferred sensations (e.g., food-?related sensations). To the extent that t?hese preferred sensations are included (as prior beliefs) in its generative model, the organism is effectively gathering evidence for its model—or, more allegorically, for its existence (i.e., maximizing model evidence or self-?evidencing). This ?simple princi?ple has ramifications for psychological functions traditionally considered in isolation, such as perception, action control, memory, attention, intention, emotion, and more. For example, perception and action are both self-evidencing, in the sense that a creature can align what it expects, given its generative model, with what it senses e? ither by changing its beliefs (about the presence of food) or by changing the world (soliciting food-?related sensations).
*** Here the third mind chooses whether to update beliefs (implementing the second mind) or to update the world (implementing the first mind).
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