The Free Energy Principle (FEP) offers a physically grounded account of intentional properties in mind and life, framed in the context of Dynamical Systems Theory. Because of this generality, it was proposed as a formal basis to formalize the study of biological autonomy, autopoiesis, and enactive cognition. Yet, those approaches are centered by definition on describing how biological and...
This article applies the thesis of the extended mind to ambient smart environments. These systems are characterised by an environment, such as a home or classroom, infused with multiple, highly networked streams of smart technology working in the background, learning about the user and operating without an explicit interface or any intentional sensorimotor engagement from the user. We analyse...
March 17, 2023Avel Guénin--Carlut, Ben White, Lorena Sganzerla4 citations
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We draw from the recent enactivist literature to articulate an operational definition of Wittgensteinien forms of life as a self-productive collection of constraints over collective behavior. We propose that humans integrate and enact those account through the Active Inference of shared “regimes of attentions”, which are experienced as embedded normativity within direct engagement with a shared...