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June 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Article: "Noise as a diagnostic tool: Distinguishing System/Device Effects in Multimodal Neuroimaging"
Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil
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Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil
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June 12, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Article: "Noise as a diagnostic tool: Distinguishing System/Device Effects in Multimodal Neuroimaging"
Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil
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Coauthors: Erik D. Fagerholm, Hirokazu Tanaka, Gregory Scott, Robert Leech, Frederico E. Turkheimer, Peter Zeidman, Milan Brazdil
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Comments on "Micah's New Law of Thermodynamics"
Presenter: Micah Blumberg
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Presenter: Micah Blumberg
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June 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Comments on "Micah's New Law of Thermodynamics"
Presenter: Micah Blumberg
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[Comments start at 1:15:20]
Presenter: Micah Blumberg
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Interview: "The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience, and Artificial Intelligence"
Host: Ryan Anderson
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Host: Ryan Anderson
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#72 Prof. Karl Friston - The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience & Artificial Intelligence
YouTube video by AWONDERJUNKIE
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June 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Interview: "The Nature of Consciousness, Sentience, and Artificial Intelligence"
Host: Ryan Anderson
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Host: Ryan Anderson
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Chapter: "Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity"
Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo
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Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo
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Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity
This chapter is about modeling brain responses and estimating effective connectivity using functional neuroimaging techniques. It also introduces dynamic causal models. These models allow us to infer ...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Chapter: "Dynamic Causal Modeling of Brain Activity"
Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo
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Coauthors: Frederik Van de Steen, Peter Zeidman, Dimitris A. Pinotsis, Guy Nagels, Daniele Marinazzo
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Article: "Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference"
Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618
Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618
Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference
The Computing Continuum (CC) is an emerging Internet-based computing paradigm that spans from local Internet of Things sensors and constrained edge devices to large-scale cloud data centers. Its goal ...
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June 6, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Article: "Distributed Intelligence in the Computing Continuum with Active Inference"
Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618
Coauthors: Victor Casamayor Pujol, Boris Sedlak, Tommaso Salvatori, Schahram Dustdar
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24618
Article: "AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models"
First author: Conor Heins
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784
First author: Conor Heins
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784
AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models
Current deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approaches achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains, but struggle with data efficiency compared to human learning, which leverages core priors ...
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June 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Article: "AXIOM: Learning to Play Games in Minutes with Expanding Object-Centric Models"
First author: Conor Heins
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784
First author: Conor Heins
arxiv.org/abs/2505.24784
Article: "Neural mechanisms of disease pathology and cognition in young-onset Alzheimer's disease variants"
First author: Seda Sacu
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First author: Seda Sacu
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June 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Article: "Neural mechanisms of disease pathology and cognition in young-onset Alzheimer's disease variants"
First author: Seda Sacu
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First author: Seda Sacu
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Article: "Adaptive consolidation of active inference: excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms for organizing feedforward and feedback memory systems in sleep"
Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu
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Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu
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May 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Article: "Adaptive consolidation of active inference: excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms for organizing feedforward and feedback memory systems in sleep"
Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu
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Coauthors: Don M. Tucker, Phan Luu
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AMA (Ask Me Anything)
Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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AMA, May 2025 - Karl Friston - "In simple terms, what is the FEP?"
YouTube video by Noumenal Labs
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May 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
AMA (Ask Me Anything)
Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Article: "Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle"
Coauthor: @tspisak.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
Coauthor: @tspisak.bsky.social
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Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle
Attractor dynamics are a hallmark of many complex systems, including the brain. Understanding how such self-organizing dynamics emerge from first principles is crucial for advancing our understanding ...
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May 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Article: "Self-orthogonalizing attractor neural networks emerging from the free energy principle"
Coauthor: @tspisak.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
Coauthor: @tspisak.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2505.22749
Interview: "Healing and the Nature of Self"
Host: New Thinking Allowed
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Host: New Thinking Allowed
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Healing and the Nature of Self with Karl Friston
YouTube video by New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove
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May 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Interview: "Healing and the Nature of Self"
Host: New Thinking Allowed
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Host: New Thinking Allowed
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Inaugural Monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything): May 30, 12:30pm EST
Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social for @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social for @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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May 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Inaugural Monthly AMA (Ask Me Anything): May 30, 12:30pm EST
Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social for @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Host: @mjdramstead.bsky.social for @noumenal-labs.bsky.social
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Article: "The Functional Anatomy of Nociception: Effective Connectivity in Chronic Pain and Placebo Response"
Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray
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Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray
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May 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Article: "The Functional Anatomy of Nociception: Effective Connectivity in Chronic Pain and Placebo Response"
Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray
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Coauthors: Sanjeev Nara, Marwan N. Baliki, Dipanjan Ray
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Article: "Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography"
First author: Amirhossein Jafarian
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First author: Amirhossein Jafarian
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Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, are characterised by selective neuronal vulnerability with regional, laminar, cellular and neurotransmitter specificity. The regional losses ...
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May 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Article: "Neurophysiological progression in Alzheimer's disease: insights from dynamic causal modelling of longitudinal magnetoencephalography"
First author: Amirhossein Jafarian
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First author: Amirhossein Jafarian
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Article: "A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment"
Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis
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Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis
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Frontiers | A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment
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May 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Article: "A computational account of joint SSRI and anti-inflammatory treatment"
Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis
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Coauthors: Melissa Reneaux, Helen Mayberg, Dimitris A. Pinotsis
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Article: "Priors and proprioceptive predictions"
Coauthors: Thomas Parr, @mjdramstead.bsky.social
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Coauthors: Thomas Parr, @mjdramstead.bsky.social
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Priors and proprioceptive predictions
This review presents an approach to motor control inspired by the Equilibrium Point Hypothesis. The core idea is that, to realise a motor plan, one ne…
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May 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Article: "Priors and proprioceptive predictions"
Coauthors: Thomas Parr, @mjdramstead.bsky.social
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Coauthors: Thomas Parr, @mjdramstead.bsky.social
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Article: "The meltdown pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns"
Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson
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Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson
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May 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Article: "The meltdown pathway: A multidisciplinary account of autistic meltdowns"
Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson
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Coauthors: Paul A. Soden, Anjali Bhat, Adam K. Anderson
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Article: "An active inference explanation of discriminatory cognition with regard to social attitudes and harmful behaviour."
Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker
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Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker
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April 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Article: "An active inference explanation of discriminatory cognition with regard to social attitudes and harmful behaviour."
Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker
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Coauthors: Héctor M. Manrique, Michael J. Walker
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Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience"
Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron
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Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron
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How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience
Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent
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April 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience"
Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron
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Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron
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Article: "Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis"
Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias,
J. Galen Buckwalter
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Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias,
J. Galen Buckwalter
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Frontiers | Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis
Within a theoretical framework of enactive allostasis, we explore active inference strategies for minimizing surprise to achieve resilience in dynamic enviro...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Article: "Resilience Phenotypes Derived from an Active Inference Account of Allostasis"
Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias,
J. Galen Buckwalter
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Coauthors: Laura A. Harrison, Antonio A. Gracias,
J. Galen Buckwalter
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Article: "Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields"
Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray
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Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray
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Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields - Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Macroscopic studies of cortical tissue reveal a prevalence of oscillatory activity, that reflect a fine tuning of neural interactions. This research extends neural field theories by incorporating gene...
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April 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Article: "Cortical dynamics of neural-connectivity fields"
Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray
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Coauthors: Gerald K. Cooray, Vernon Cooray
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Karl Friston: The physics of communication.
YouTube video by CUDANLab
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April 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Article: "Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention"
Coauthors: Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo
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Coauthors: Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo
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Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention
This paper asks what predictive processing models of brain function can learn from the success of transformer architectures. We suggest that the reason transformer architectures have been successfu...
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April 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Article: "Beyond Markov: Transformers, memory, and attention"
Coauthors: Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo
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Coauthors: Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo
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