Passed my viva last Friday — truly living la viva voce right now.
Huge thanks to my entire supervisory team for keeping me steady through every twist, turn, and neural circuit.

#Drosophila #FreeEnergyPrinciple #ComputationalNeuroscience #AffectiveNeuroscience #ThesisComplete

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Congrats to Ukyo Tazawa for publishing his first first-author paper in Neural Networks!🎉 He develops a new Bayesian model selection method based on a synaptic pruning rule derived from the variational principle.

#ActiveInference #FreeEnergyPrinciple

doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

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It comes with two appendices: the first on "the Limitations of Mathematical Modeling."

expandingpossibilities.org/a4-limitations-of-mathem...

This one is quite interesting in its own right, including a take down of the claim that the […]

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Our new #arXiv paper out!
"Learning by Surprise": #Surplexity for Mitigation Model Collapse in Generative AI

A new characterization of #modelcollapse in #ai #autophagy and a mitigation inspired by #FreeEnergyPrinciple from cognitive science

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arxiv.org/abs/2410.12341

Wanja Wiese: "Die Mathematisierung des Bewusstseins" Zoomposium-Interview mit Dr. (PhD) Wanja Wiese zur Möglichkeit der Mathematisierung des Bewusstseins oder oder lässt sich Geist simulieren?"

#Zoomposium with Dr. #Wanja #Wiese: “The #mathematization of #consciousness or can #mind be #simulated?”

#philosophical #concepts #predictive #coding #processing #freeenergyprinciple #Friston #consciousness

More at: philosophies.de/index.php/20...

or: youtu.be/G6_O-QvDvNk

Wanja Wiese: "Die Mathematisierung des Bewusstseins" Zoomposium-Interview mit Dr. (PhD) Wanja Wiese zur Möglichkeit der Mathematisierung des Bewusstseins oder oder lässt sich Geist simulieren?"

#Zoomposium mit Dr. #Wanja #Wiese: „Die #Mathematisierung des #Bewusstseins oder lässt sich #Geist #simulieren?“

#philosophische #Konzepte #predictive #coding #processing #freeenergyprinciple #Friston #Bewusstsein

Mehr auf: philosophies.de/index.php/20...

oder: youtu.be/G6_O-QvDvNk

A Deep Learning Alternative Can Help AI Agents Gameplay the Real World A new machine learning approach tries to better emulate the human brain, in hopes of creating more capable agentic AI.

#Axiom offers an alternative to the artificial #NeuralNetworks that are dominant in modern #AI. It draws #inspiration from the #FreeEnergyPrinciple, #InformationTheory as well as #Biology. www.wired.com/story/a-deep...

Check out this deep dive into consciousness, self, & the nature of reality! 🤯 #FreeEnergyPrinciple #Consciousness #Aging #Neuroscience #Philosophy #Complexity #InformationTheory #cognitivescience #FreeEnergyPrinciple @karlfriston @drmichaellevin @TOE

Life, its origin, and its distribution: a perspective from the Conway-Kochen Theorem and the Free Energy Principle You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

Is the origin of life a chemistry problem or a cognitive science problem? @drmichaellevin & Chris Fields argue it's the latter! #FEP #OriginOfLife #cognitivescience #FermiParadox #FreeEnergyPrinciple
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

The neural correlates of consciousness under the free energy principle: From computational correlates to computational explanation | Philosophy and the Mind Sciences Philosophy and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci) focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. PhiMiSci is a peer-reviewed, not-for-profit open-access journal...

Wanja Wiese and Karl J. Friston argue that we need to search for #computational correlates of #consciousness beside #NCC. With the #FreeEnergyPrinciple, we may even distinguish systems that truly are conscious from those that merely simulate it: doi.org/10.33735/phi...

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia
#starterpacks, let's share introductions to the literature of our different fields.

Here are the 12 main types of scientific papers on active inference (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #activeinference #freeenergyprinciple #neuroskyence