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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/artificial-intelligence-group/events/seminar-activ
 e-inference-across-scales-brain-body-and
LOCATION:CPH - Carl A. Pollock Hall 200 University Avenue West 4335 Waterlo
 o ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Seminar: Active Inference Across Scales: From the Brain to the Body
 \nand Culture
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:MAXWELL RAMSTEAD\, MCGILL UNIVERSITY\n\nThe active inference fr
 amework explains a deeply puzzling\ncharacteristic of living systems\, tha
 t they resist the natural\ntendency towards dissipation\; namely\, the ent
 ropic decay that is\ndictated by the second law of thermodynamics. Living 
 systems manage to\nmaintain themselves in a limited number of states\, i.e
 .\, their\nphenotypical states. How do organisms accomplish this incredibl
 e feat?\nWhat does it mean to be alive? How are they integrated across the
 \nscales at which they exist — from subcellular processes and neural\nne
 tworks\, to embodied action and culture? In the active inference\nframewor
 k\, the actions and bodies of organisms encode expectations (or\nBayesian 
 beliefs) about the world\, and act to make those expectations\ncome true.
  
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