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Snakes and Ladders in the Evolution of Language

Chris Fields and Michael Levin

2024

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The Free Energy Principle Induces Compartmentalization

Chris Fields

2024

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Constructing Condensed Memories in Functorial Time

Shanna Dobson and Chris Fields

2024

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Mortal Computation: A Foundation for Biomimetic Intelligence

Alexander Ororbia, Karl Friston

2024

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AI: A Bridge toward Diverse Intelligence and Humanity’s Future

Michael Levin

2024

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Self-Improvising Memory: A Perspective on Memories as Agential, Dynamically Reinterpreting Cognitive Glue

Michael Levin

2024

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Traces of Consciousness

Swapan Chattopadhyay, Manish Singh, Donald Hoffman, Ben Knepper, Chetan Prakash, Robert Prentner, Manish Singh

2024

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Constructing Condensed Memories in Functorial Time

Shanna Dobson and Chris Fields

2024

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Fusions of Consciousness

Donald D. Hoffman, Chetan Prakash and Robert Prentner

2023

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Federated inference and belief sharing

Karl J Friston, Thomas Parr, Conor Heins, Axel Constant, Daniel Friedman, Takuya Isomura, Chris Fields, Tim Verbelen, Maxwell Ramstead, John Clippinger, Christopher D Frith

2023

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Toward a Unified Classification System for Brain–Mind Disorders: Putting Calls for Integrated Clinical Neuroscience Into Action

Michael Stanley, David Silbersweig and David Perez

2023

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Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference

Karl J. Fristona, Thomas Parra, Yan Yu kb, Noor Sajida, Catherine J. Pricea, Emma Holmes

2020

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A free energy principle for a particular physics

Karl Friston

2019

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Neuroimaging in Psychiatry: A Quarter Century of Progress

David Silbersweig and Scott Rauch

2017

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Conscious Agent Networks: Formal Analysis and Application to Cognition

Angelo Cangelosi, Chris Fields, Donald D. Hoffman, Chetan Prakash, Manish Singh

2017

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Active inference, communication and hermeneutics

Karl J. Friston and Christopher D. Frith

2015

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Knowing one’s place: a free-energy approach to pattern regulation

Karl Friston, Michael Levin, Biswa Sengupta and Giovanni Pezzulo

2015

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A Neural Circuit Framework for Somatosensory Amplification in Somatoform Disorders

David Perez, Arthur Barsky, David Vago, Gaston Baslet, and David Silbersweig

2015

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The Neuropsychiatric Spectrum of Motivational Disorders

Jane Epstein and David Silbersweig

2015

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Computational psychiatry: the brain as a phantastic organ

Karl J Friston, Klaas Enno Stephan, Read Montague, Raymond J Dolan

2014

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Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART): a framework for understanding the neurobiological mechanisms of mindfulness

David Vago and David Silbersweig

2012

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