Agentic Economics
WHAT WE MEAN BY AGENTIC ECONOMICS
Agentic economics treats markets as Markov blankets of diverse agents that self-synchronize around shared outcomes. Instead of rewarding volatility and information asymmetry, value is indexed to measurable reductions in uncertainty and increases in system coherence. Liquidity arises from verified outcomes, not from speculative capital pools.
We develop metrics such as the Free Information Gradient, which measure how efficiently a system turns energy into information gain. This creates a path to financial instruments, tokens, and policies that are thermodynamically honest and auditable in real time.
Symbiotic Collective
Self-Organization
Symbiotic Collective
Self-Organization
Atomic
Optimization
Atomic
Optimization
Verifiable Autonomous
Models of Value Creation
And Allocation
Aspirational Norms
And Incentives
Agentic State
Stability Coins
INDUSTRIAL AGE
Markets and Governance as Separate Agnostic Consensus Mechanisms of Competing Agents
LIVING INTELLIGENCES AGE
Markets as Polis: Markov blankets of Entropy Minimizing Agents
Intelligent Internet
Ethereum
Singularity Net
Regenerative Finance
Automated Market Makers
Black-Scholes
Merton
Dogecoin
Cardano
Ripple
Bitcoin-Blockchain
Carbon-Offsets
ETFs (TradFi)
Binance (CEX)
Libertarianism
Liberalism
Marxism
Socialism
Nature-Based
Currencies
Cognitive Economics
Neuro-economics
Symbiotic Collective
Self-Organization
Atomic
Optimization
Verifiable Autonomous
Models of Value Creation
And Allocation
Aspirational Norms
And Incentives
Agentic State
Stability Coins
INDUSTRIAL AGE
Markets and Governance as Separate Agnostic Consensus Mechanisms of Competing Agents
LIVING INTELLIGENCES AGE
Markets as Polis: Markov blankets of Entropy Minimizing Agents
Intelligent Internet
Ethereum
Singularity Net
Regenerative Finance
Automated Market Makers
Black-Scholes
Merton
Dogecoin
Cardano
Ripple
Bitcoin-Blockchain
Carbon-Offsets
ETFs (TradFi)
Binance (CEX)
Libertarianism
Liberalism
Marxism
Socialism
Nature-Based
Currencies
Cognitive Economics
Neuro-economics
The Transition Dialogues
Deep conversations at the edge of economics, cognition, and computation.
Agentic economics treats markets as Markov blankets of diverse agents that self-synchronize around shared outcomes. Instead of rewarding volatility and information asymmetry, value is indexed to measurable reductions in uncertainty and increases in system coherence. Liquidity arises from verified outcomes, not from speculative capital pools.
When Magic Meets Ashby’s Homeostat
Matthew Brown
Quantum Consciousness and the Future of Sentient Robots
Suzanne Gildert
Narratives, Crises, and the Next Economy
Cy Canterel
Quantum Consciousness: Are Microtubules the Mind’s True Engine?
Mike Weist
Can AI Understand Consciousness?
Bill Giannakopoulos
What If Science Got Consciousness Completely Wrong?
Federico Faggin
The Hidden Blueprint for AI & Governance
William C. Ratcliff
The Future of Understanding
Michael Levin
Quantum Consciousness, Microtubules & the Brain
Stuart Hameroff
Roundtable on Implications of LLMs and Active Inference Agentic Architectures
Inside the Brain: Can We truly Understand Intelligence?
David Silbersweig
CA Skip navigation Search Create Avatar image Building Smarter AI: Active Inference & Nested Models
Bagaev, de Vries, Friedman, Pashea
Exploring Consciousness, Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Quantum World
Anil Seth
The Future of AI and Natural Intelligence
Dr. Karl Friston
The Science of Conscious Agents: Beyond Evolution and Perception
Don Hoffman
Maintain Order and Function in a Changing Environment
Chris Fields
When Magic Meets Ashby’s Homeostat
Matthew Brown
Quantum Consciousness and the Future of Sentient Robots
Suzanne Gildert
Narratives, Crises, and the Next Economy
Cy Canterel
Quantum Consciousness: Are Microtubules the Mind’s True Engine?
Mike Weist
Can AI Understand Consciousness?
Bill Giannakopoulos
What If Science Got Consciousness Completely Wrong?
Federico Faggin
The Hidden Blueprint for AI & Governance
William C. Ratcliff
The Future of Understanding
Michael Levin
Quantum Consciousness, Microtubules & the Brain
Stuart Hameroff
Roundtable on Implications of LLMs and Active Inference Agentic Architectures
Inside the Brain: Can We truly Understand Intelligence?
David Silbersweig
CA Skip navigation Search Create Avatar image Building Smarter AI: Active Inference & Nested Models
Bagaev, de Vries, Friedman, Pashea
Exploring Consciousness, Philosophy, Neuroscience, and the Quantum World
Anil Seth
The Future of AI and Natural Intelligence
Dr. Karl Friston
The Science of Conscious Agents: Beyond Evolution and Perception
Don Hoffman
Maintain Order and Function in a Changing Environment
Chris Fields
Can AI Understand Consciousness?
Bill Giannakopoulos
Can AI Understand Consciousness?
Bill Giannakopoulos
What If Science Got Consciousness Completely Wrong?
Federico Faggin
What If Science Got Consciousness Completely Wrong?
Federico Faggin
When Magic Meets Ashby’s Homeostat
Matthew Brown
When Magic Meets Ashby’s Homeostat
Matthew Brown
Quantum Consciousness and the Future of Sentient Robots
Suzanne Gildert
Quantum Consciousness and the Future of Sentient Robots
Suzanne Gildert
Narratives, Crises, and the Next Economy
Cy Canterel
Narratives, Crises, and the Next Economy
Cy Canterel
Quantum Consciousness: Are Microtubules the Mind’s True Engine?
Mike Weist
Quantum Consciousness: Are Microtubules the Mind’s True Engine?
Mike Weist
Coming Soon
Awakening Sentience in Nature, Science and selves.
John H. Clippinger with Manticus
A Sentient Nature explores the deep interconnections between nature, science, society, and self. Blending philosophy, history, and emerging scientific paradigms, the book challenges the traditional mechanistic view of the world, advocating instead for a model that recognizes nature as sentient, adaptive, and interwoven with human consciousness. Drawing from complexity science, evolutionary biology, and Emersonian thought, the author examines how economic systems, governance, and technology can align with principles of sentient mutualism to create a more sustainable and just future.
Awakening Sentience in Nature, Science and selves.
John H. Clippinger with Manticus
A Sentient Nature explores the deep interconnections between nature, science, society, and self. Blending philosophy, history, and emerging scientific paradigms, the book challenges the traditional mechanistic view of the world, advocating instead for a model that recognizes nature as sentient, adaptive, and interwoven with human consciousness. Drawing from complexity science, evolutionary biology, and Emersonian thought, the author examines how economic systems, governance, and technology can align with principles of sentient mutualism to create a more sustainable and just future.
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"We’re bridging the gap between neuroscience, physics, biology, and artificial intelligence, creating sentient systems that can think, adapt, and act like humans"
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Featured Essays
Featured Essays
The Transition Atlas
An interactive map of ideas, technologies, and paradigms reshaping our world. Click any node to explore deeper insights and emerging perspectives.
THE ATLAS CHARTS TRADITIONS, MODELS, AND MACHINES ACROSS TWO KEY GRADIENTS:
From unobservables that are experienced to observables that are engineered, and from closed mechanisms to open, self-organizing agentic selves. The upper right quadrant highlights emerging agentic economics: Markov markets of adaptive agents, active inference systems, Ashby style homeostats, reasoning AIs, and new forms of self-writing economic protocols.
Each node is a hypothesis about how minds, markets, and machines can synchronize around outcomes, not just narratives. Click any node to explore how it contributes to verifiable, non-extractive value creation.
Open Self-Organizing
-Quantum Agentic Selves
Closed
Mechanisms
Observables
Engineered
Artifacts
Unobservables
Experienced
Self-Organizing
Sentient Agentic
Xenobots
Biofirm
Active Inference
Agent
Conscious
Agent Theory
Seity
Panpsychism
Orchestrated
Objective
Reduction
Integrated
Information
Theory
Self-Writing
Internet Computer
Protocol
Ashby
Homeostat
Agentic
Economics
AlphaFold
DeepSeek R3
SciAgents
SandboxAQ
Reasoning
Chains
Meta Llama 3
Agentic Mesh
Bitcoin
GPT-5
Gemini
Claude 4.1
CruiseAi
Perplexity
Ethereum
NDE
Buddhism
Psychedelics
Animism
Unitarianism
Sufism
Teillhardism
Taoism
Shintoism
Vendata
Neo-Liberalism
Humanism
Effective
Altruism
Secular Rationalism
Atheism
Free Market
Capitalism
AltRight
Marxism
Communism
Socialism
Libertarianism
New Apostolic
Reformation
Catholicism
Pentecostal
Mormonism
Wahabism
Christian
Evangelicals
Orthodox
Judaism
ANTHROPOCENE
NOVACENE
Scientific
Praxis
Vector
(*In bold last 5 years)
Open Self-Organizing
-Quantum Agentic Selves
Closed
Mechanisms
Observables
Engineered
Artifacts
Unobservables
Experienced
Self-Organizing
Sentient Agentic
Xenobots
Biofirm
Active Inference
Agent
Conscious
Agent Theory
Seity
Panpsychism
Orchestrated
Objective
Reduction
Integrated
Information
Theory
Self-Writing
Internet Computer
Protocol
Ashby
Homeostat
Agentic
Economics
AlphaFold
DeepSeek R3
SciAgents
SandboxAQ
Reasoning
Chains
Meta Llama 3
Agentic Mesh
Bitcoin
GPT-5
Gemini
Claude 4.1
CruiseAi
Perplexity
Ethereum
NDE
Buddhism
Psychedelics
Animism
Unitarianism
Sufism
Teillhardism
Taoism
Shintoism
Vendata
Neo-Liberalism
Humanism
Effective
Altruism
Secular Rationalism
Atheism
Free Market
Capitalism
AltRight
Marxism
Communism
Socialism
Libertarianism
New Apostolic
Reformation
Catholicism
Pentecostal
Mormonism
Wahabism
Christian
Evangelicals
Orthodox
Judaism
ANTHROPOCENE
NOVACENE
Scientific
Praxis
Vector
(*In bold last 5 years)
Open Self-Organizing
-Quantum Agentic Selves
Closed
Mechanisms
Observables
Engineered
Artifacts
Unobservables
Experienced
Self-Organizing
Sentient Agentic
Xenobots
Biofirm
Active Inference
Agent
Conscious
Agent Theory
Seity
Panpsychism
Orchestrated
Objective
Reduction
Integrated
Information
Theory
Self-Writing
Internet Computer
Protocol
Ashby
Homeostat
Agentic
Economics
AlphaFold
DeepSeek R3
SciAgents
SandboxAQ
Reasoning
Chains
Meta Llama 3
Agentic Mesh
Bitcoin
GPT-5
Gemini
Claude 4.1
CruiseAi
Perplexity
Ethereum
NDE
Buddhism
Psychedelics
Animism
Unitarianism
Sufism
Teillhardism
Taoism
Shintoism
Vendata
Neo-Liberalism
Humanism
Effective
Altruism
Secular Rationalism
Atheism
Free Market
Capitalism
AltRight
Marxism
Communism
Socialism
Libertarianism
New Apostolic
Reformation
Catholicism
Pentecostal
Mormonism
Wahabism
Christian
Evangelicals
Orthodox
Judaism
ANTHROPOCENE
NOVACENE
Scientific
Praxis
Vector
(*In bold last 5 years)
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