Research

Federated inference and belief sharing

Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference

Aligning Active Inference Ontology to SUMO

Bridging gaps in image meme research: A multidisciplinary paradigm for scaling up qualitative analyses

Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic: A Comment on: ‘Snakes and ladders’ in paleoanthropology: From cognitive surprise to skillfulness a million years ago

Four-fold Fields of Quantum Dreams

Way Finding in the Infinite Imaginarium: Juxtaposing Epistemic Tempos and Modes

Push and Pull: A priming sequence

Chemical and transcriptomic diversity do not correlate with ascending levels of social complexity in the insect order Blattodea

Comments Submitted by BlockScience, University of Washington APL Information Risk and Synthetic Intelligence Research Initiative (IRSIRI), Cognitive Security and Education Forum (COGSEC), and the Active Inference Institute (AII) to the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development National Coordination Office's Request for Comment on The Creation of a National Digital Twins R&D Strategic Plan NITRD-2024-13379

Enhancing Population-based Search with Active Inference

FarmWorks: Decentralized AI Agents for Personalized Solutions

The Active Inference Institute & Active Inference Ecosystem (version 2, 2024 snapshot)

MathArt Stream #8 ~ William Blake and Active Inference

Transcript of: “Sensemaking Federation: Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Innovation”

Biofirm Development with First Principles First and the Active Inference Institute at the Applied Active Inference Symposium 2024

Archival snapshot of: Systems Science Education & Knowledge Engineering group (2022-2024)

A single-pheromone model accounts for empirical patterns of ant colony foraging previously modeled using two pheromones

A variational synthesis of evolutionary and developmental dynamics

ATLAS: A Question Oriented Approach to the Use of Pattern Languages in Knowledge Management

Experimental Entomology in the Age of Video

Generalized Notation Notation for Active Inference Models

Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception

Open Access science needs Open Science Sensemaking (OSSm): open infrastructure for sharing scientific sensemaking data

To comment or not to comment, that is the question!: Comment on “To copy or not to copy?...”

Generative Research Teams: Active Inference Compositions For Research and Meta-Science

The Active Inference Institute and Active Inference Ecosystem

A snapshot and pipeline for tissue-specific gene expression meta-analysis in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

An Account of Active Inference Modeling

Distributed Science - The Scientific Process as Multi-Scale Active Inference

The Properties, Processes, and Perspectives Inter-Framework (P3IF): Multiplexing interdisciplinary requirements frameworks to manage information risk and foster cognitive security

A guided tour through the spaces of particular “minds”: A Comment on “Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things”

Enhanced NSF Postdoctoral Reporting via Synthetic Intelligence Language Processing

Comments on AI Accountability Policy Submitted to NTIA Docket 2023-0005-0001 by IRSIRI, AII, PFH, and COGSEC

A Natural AI Based on The Science of Computational Physics, Biology and Neuroscience: Policy and Societal Significance

William Blake & Buckminster Fuller: Lives in Juxtaposition (A study in Comprehensivity)

Monitoring memetic sense-making across digital publics: Combining rhetorical analysis and ecological frameworks for gathering and analyzing image-memes

Of Ants & Aging

Modern Nostr Index Card-based Knowledge Engineering

Slides for Iris

Postdoc review (2020-2023) ~ September 25, 2023

Active Blockference: cadCAD with Active Inference for cognitive systems modeling

Transcript of Chris Fields, "Physics as Information Processing" course in 2023

From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking

Tracking Public Sensemaking through Rhetorical Annotation of Image Memes

An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons

TrustFinder: Recommendations for a Community-Based System for Finding Trusted Sources and Evaluating Claims

Predictive Processing Interpretation of the Mirror Test and Implications of a Reflection Prediction for Human Cognition

On free will or the lack thereof

Catechism for: "Towards Active Diffusion: A Tale of Multiple (den)Cities"

The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference: a Systematic Literature Analysis

Systems Modeling and Cognitive Audits for Hypercert Ecosystems

Structuring the Information Commons: Open Standards and Cognitive Security

Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior

Active Inference in Modeling Conflict

Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem Analysis: Sensemaking of Digital Memetic Discourse

Narrative Information Management

Collaborative Writing for Catechism-Based Teams

Knowledge Management Archipelago

Narrative Information Ecosystems: Conflict and Trust on the Endless Frontier

The Facilitator's Catechism Playbook

Innovator’s Digital Playbook

The Innovator’s Catechism

Reimagining Maps

The Facilitator's Catechism

The neuroscience of decision making

Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams

Infinite Games for Infinite Teams

Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects

Emergent Teams for Complex Threats

Gene expression variation in the brains of harvester ant foragers is associated with collective behavior

Measurement of natural variation of neurotransmitter tissue content in red harvester ant brains among different colonies.

The Great Preset: Remote Teams and Operational Art

How to use Keybase for remote teams

Communication for Remote Teams

Dennett Explained

The ant colony as a test for scientific theories of consciousness

The physiology of forager hydration and variation among harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) colonies in collective foraging

The Role of Dopamine in the Collective Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants

Foraging behavior and locomotion of the invasive Argentine ant from winter aggregations

Partner Pen Play in Parallel (PPPiP): A New PPPiParadigm for Relationship Improvement

Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness

MVEE: A Framework for Evolutionary Studies

The MutAnts are here

Two lineages that need each other

“Context-dependent expression of the foraging gene in field colonies of ants: the interacting roles of age, environment and task”

“Ant Genetics: Reproductive Physiology, Worker Morphology, and Behavior”

"Influence of Nuclear Structure on the formation of radiation-induced lethal lesions"

“Could Ehrlichial Infection Cause Some of the Changes Associated with Leukemia, Myelodysplastic Diseases and Autoimmune Disorders, and Offer Antibiotic Treatment Options?”

"Large Scale Coding Sequence Change Underlies the Evolution of Post-developmental Novelty in Honey Bees"

“Commentary: Portuguese crypto-Jews: the genetic heritage of a complex history”

Thoughtseeds: A Hierarchical and Agentic Framework for Investigating Thought Dynamics in Meditative States

The Discovery Engine: A Framework for AI-Driven Synthesis and Navigation of Scientific Knowledge Landscapes

ResNei: Solution Design Document

Towards a Science of Consciousness and Social Complexity.... For Ants

Increasing the Accessibility and Applicability of Active Inference: Generative Playbooks and Open-Source Summer School Curriculum Development

Temporal Depth in a Coherent Self and in Depersonalization: Theoretical Model

The Ant Stack

CEREBRUM: Case-Enabled Reasoning Engine with Bayesian Representations for Unified Modeling

On Time

On Cognitive Art & Science: Toward Wholeness From Both Sides

MDKV: A Multitrack Markdown Container for Structured, Portable Documents

QuadMath: An Analytical Review of 4D and Quadray Coordinates

Symergetics: Symbolic Synergetics for Rational Arithmetic, Geometric Pattern Discovery, and All-Integer Accounting

Adaptive Basic Income (AuBI): Integrating AI, Decentralized Infrastructure, and Active Inference for Next-Generation Economic Systems

Synthesis of Agent and Niche

Computational Complexity and Energetics of the Ant Stack

EvoJump: A Unified Framework for Stochastic Modeling of Evolutionary Ontogenetic Trajectories

Markdown Decision Process: A Framework for Probabilistic Document Analysis and Optimization

The Active Inference Institute & Active Inference Ecosystem (version 3, 2025 snapshot)