Two takeaways from ACT2Infer

Abstract

In September, David Spivak and I hosted the ACT2Infer workshop which brought together experts in applied category theory and active inference together in order to begin the process of articulating and clarifying the underlying principles of active inference via the formalism of category theory. In this two-part talk I’ll (1) share the logistics of hosting this workshop and (2) share my main conceptual takeaway — a polynomial functor account of active inference.