Heins, Conor

The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple

Friston, K., Da Costa, L., Sajid, N., Heins, C., Ueltzhöffer, K., Pavliotis, G. A., & Parr, T. (2023) · Physics Reports

Embodied and Extended CognitionPhilosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

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pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces

Heins, C., Millidge, B., Demekas, D., Klein, B., Friston, K., Couzin, I. D., & Tschantz, A. (2022) · Journal of Open Source Software

Embodied and Extended CognitionReinforcement Learning in Robotics

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Bayesian mechanics for stationary processes

Da Costa, L., Friston, K., Heins, C., & Pavliotis, G. A. (2021) · Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Embodied and Extended CognitionBayesian Modeling and Causal Inference

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Epistemic Communities under Active Inference

Albarracin, M., Demekas, D., Ramstead, M. J. D., & Heins, C. (2022) · Entropy

Embodied and Extended CognitionMisinformation and Its Impacts

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Collective behavior from surprise minimization

Heins, C., Millidge, B., Da Costa, L., Mann, R. P., Friston, K. J., & Couzin, I. D. (2024) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Embodied and Extended CognitionDistributed Control Multi-Agent Systems

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Federated inference and belief sharing

Friston, K. J., Parr, T., Heins, C., Constant, A., Friedman, D., Isomura, T., Fields, C., Verbelen, T., Ramstead, M., Clippinger, J., et al. (2024) · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Embodied and Extended CognitionLanguage and cultural evolution

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