Showcase

As a collective and as individuals, we participate in a broader process of scientific enquiries. Here is an overview of our academic work :

Our publications

  • Baulin, Vladimir, Alex Vyatkin, Avel Guénin–Carlut, Daniel Friedman, John Bolt, Stefan Falkenstein, Parishrut Jassal, Celio Trois, and Jonathan Minchin. 2024. “FarmWorks: Decentralized AI Agents for Personalized Solutions,” September. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13754586.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel, and Laura Desirée Di Paolo. 2024. “Repenser l’éducation et La Technologie Pour l’Anthropocène: De l’inférence Active à La Technopolitique Située.” OSF. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/rz3ju.
    • Submitted to Oeconomia Humana issue *LA REDIRECTION ÉCOLOGIQUE : Entre ingénierie de la fermeture du capitalisme et projet démocratique en Anthropocène. Développements conceptuels, retours d’expériences et avancées pratiques”.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel, and Sarah Benazouz. 2024. “Modelling the Social Construction of Preferences in Financial Economics - Toward an Active Inference Reconstruction of Minskyian Macroeconomics,” July. https://osf.io/rfsv7/.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2024. “From the Existential Stance to Social Constraints - How the Human Mind Becomes Embedded in Our Social, Cultural and Material Context.” OSF. https://osf.io/3kyzt.
  • White, Ben, Andy Clark, Avel Guenin-Carlut, Axel Constant, and Laura Desirée Di Paolo. 2024. “Extending Minds, Shifting Boundaries: Ambient Technological Environments as Extended Allostatic Control.” OSF. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/avjx4.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2024. “Contextuality, Cognitive Engagement, and Active Inference.” OSF. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wtrgh.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2024. “Is the Ecological Redirection Possible? An ALife Perspective on Sociocultural Evolution in the Anthropocene.” OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/bcyku.
  • Di Paolo, Laura Desirée, Ben White, Avel Guenin-Carlut, Axel Constant, and Andy Clark. 2024. “Active Inference Goes to School. The Importance of Active Learning in the Age of Large Language Models,” January. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/zwa83.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel, and Mahault Albarracin. 2024. “On Embedded Normativity an Active Inference Account of Agency Beyond Flesh.” In Active Inference, 91–105. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47958-8_7.
  • Guénin—Carlut, Avel. 2023. “Strange Things, Statespace Representation, and Participatory Realism - Comment on ‘Path Integrals, Particular Kinds, and Strange Things.’ by Friston et Al.” Physics of Life Reviews, October. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.10.027.
  • Guenin-Carlut, Avel, Ben White, and Lorena Sganzerla. 2023. “The Cognitive Archaeology of Sociocultural Lifeforms.” In ALIFE 2023: Ghost in the Machine: Proceedings of the 2023 Artificial Life Conference. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.1162/isal_a_00670.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2022. “Physics of Creation - Symmetry Breaking, (En)Active Inference, and Unfolding Statespaces.” OSF Preprints. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/68947.
  • Friedman, Daniel et al. 2022. ‘An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: From Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons’. https://zenodo.org/record/6320575 (March 7, 2022).
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2022. ‘Cognitive Agency in Sociocultural Evolution’. https://osf.io/x7yr4/ (January 14, 2022).
  • Guénin—Carlut, Avel. 2022. “Thinking like a State : Embodied Intelligence in the Deep History of Our Collective Mind.” IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1261 (1): 012026. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/1261/1/012026.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2020. “Cognition in Eco, Cognition in Vitro - Measurement and Explanation in Cognitive Science,” March. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/ERCZ6.
  • Guénin–Carlut, Avel. 2020. “Beyond State - Drafting a Prospective Anthropology,” March. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/EHQJS.

Our research talks

-2024 September 11 : “Contextuality, Cognitive Engagement, and Active Inference”, Paper presentation, at the 5th International Workshop on Active Inference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT. -2024 August 30 : “Active Inference in Archaeology: A Case Study in Embedded Normativity”, keynote talk at the From Material Landscape to Cognitive Landscapes XSCAPE workshop during the 2024 European Association of Archologists conference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Jadranka Verdonkschot.

  • 2024 August 08 : “Active Inference: from the physics of cognition to social organization”, Invited talk, at the Emerging Researchers in Articifial Life town hall, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2024 July 26 : “Modelling the social construction of preferences in financial economics - Toward an Active Inference reconstruction of Minskyian macroeconomics”, Research conference, at the 2024 ALife conference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2024 May 30 : “Cognitive Contextuality, Material Culture, and Participatory Realism”, Research conference, at the Cultural Embedding of Social Cognition - The predictive processing and Active Inference approach workshop organized by the Cultural Embedding of Social Cognition project, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2024 May 30 : “Engaging with Active Inference - A conceptual tutorial for social and cognitive scientists”, Tutorial, at the Cultural Embedding of Social Cognition - The predictive processing and Active Inference approach workshop organized by the Cultural Embedding of Social Cognition project, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Iona BRENAC.
  • 2024 March 20 :, “Embodiement, Contextuality, and Material Engagement”, Research conference, at the 2024 Embodied Intelligence conference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2023 October 20 : “Identity capture in the Unification Church - An Active Inference account of power”, Research conference, at the Societies in Historical and Comparative Perspective conference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2023, September 14 : “Unveiling the Ontological implications of Motivation and Directedness Towards Inostensible Referents”, Research conference, in the Intrinsically Motivated Open-ended Learning 2023 conference, by Alexis ROZANSKI
  • 2023 September 13 : “On Embedded Normativity - An Active Inference account of agency beyond flesh”, Research conference, at the 4th International Workshop on Active Inference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Mahault ALBARRACIN
  • 2023 August 22 : “On Embedded Normativity”, Research conference, in the 3rd Applied Active Inference Symposium, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT
  • 2023, August 19 : “Solving the paradox of non-existence in ontology, a naturalist social ontology”, Research conference, in the Social Ontology 2023 conference, by Alexis ROZANSKI
  • 2023 July 28 : “The Cognitive Archeology of Sociocultural Lifeforms”, Poster presentation, in the ALife 2023 conference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT
  • 2023 March 24 : “Embodied Normativity”, Research conference, in the Embodied Intelligence Conference 2023, by Manon JOB, Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Mahault ALBARRACIN,
  • 2023 March 16 : “Creating material and cultural landscapes - A constraints ontology for multiscale socio-historical dynamics”, Research conference, in the Kiel Conference 2023: Scales of Social, Environmental, and Cultural Change in Past Societies, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2023 January 23 : “Physics of Creation - Can the Free Energy Principle ground the construction of physical statespaces ?”, Research conference, in the Active Inference Institute Livestream, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 October 17 : “Intelligence without creativity - Can Active Inference ground our understanding of life, mind and society ?”, Research conference, in Cognitio 2021, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 October 16 : “Thinking like a State - Embodied intelligence in the deep history of our collective mind”, Research conference, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT, Virginia Bleu KNIGHT and Daniel FRIEDMAN, in Cognitio 2021.
  • 2021 June 29 : “Grounding collective intelligence”, Research talk, in ACM Collective Intelligence Conference 2021, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Daniel FRIEDMAN.w
  • 2021 June 10 : “Social morphogenesis as enactive agency”, Discussion panel, in Cultural Evolution Society Conference 2021, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 February 2 : “Cognition in eco & cognition in vitro : can cognitive mechanisms explain ecological behaviour ?”, Invited talk, in French Federation of Students & Young Researchers in Cognitive Science (FRESCO)’s Journal club, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2020 November 27 : “Cultural evolution of psychedelics usage, and the “entropic brain” hypothesis”, Invited talk, in Cultural Evolution Online’s seminar, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2020 May 5 & 26 : “Do collective brains dream of cultural evolution ?”, Invited talk, in Frederic NEF’s “Structures et agents” class, ENS Ulm, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2019 March 30 : “Is cognition an exemple of evolution ?”, Conference, in French Federation of Students & Young Researchers in Cognitive Science (FRESCO)’s Young Researchers Symposium, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.

Our mediation talks

    • 2024 October 10: “From material landscapes to cognitive landscapes - An invitation to cognitive archeology”, invited talk at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Bourges, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Jadranka VERDONKSCHOT.
  • 2023 December 20: “How to represent historical change?”, introductory talk for the Meta-Practical Coffee organized by the French Society of Cliodynamics, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2023 November 1: Conclusion session of the Active Inference in the Social Science course, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT, Daniel FRIEDMAN, Mahault ALBARRACIN, Lorena SGANZERLA, Alexis ROZANSKI, and Colin TURFUS.
  • 2023 October 18 : “Social constraints and the existential stance - What makes us human”, Session of the Active Inference in the Social Science course, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 November 14 : “Future of cryptocurrencies”, Panel discussion, Future Fossils podcast at Complexity Weekend, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 August 14 : “Why people believe weird things ?”, Scepticisme Scientifique podcast, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 August 03 : Interview with the “Labo des savoirs”, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Iona BRENAC.
  • 2021 July 21 : Kairos : toward an enactive research, Conference talk, in the Open, Slow, and Sustainable Science conference 2021, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT and Iona BRENAC.
  • 2021 June 23 : Complex systems methodology for navigating the Anthropocene, Unconference, in the Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance course
  • 2021 May 12 : “Cognition in eco & cognition in vitro : can cognitive mechanisms explain ecological behaviour ?”, Public lesson, in Cours aux Ernest, ENS Ulm, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 May 5 : “The architecture of cognition”, Public lesson, in Cours aux Ernest, ENS Ulm, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 April 11 : “Cognition in eco & cognition in vitro : can cognitive science explain ecological behaviour ?”, in the Cognitive Science Forum, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2021 February 10 : “Evolution of concepts in cognitive scences”, Public lesson, in Cours aux Ernest, ENS Ulm, by Iona BRENAC.
  • 2021 February 2 : “Cognition in eco & cognition in vitro : can cognitive science explain ecological behaviour ?”, in FRESCO journal club, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2020 October 16 : “Beyond State : toward a prospective anthropology”, Conference, in the French Society of Cultural Evolution (SFEC)’s conferences, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.
  • 2020 January 16 : “Is cognition individual ? A complex system perspective”, in Cognivence BAF talks, ENS Ulm, by Avel GUÉNIN–CARLUT.

Our software projects

This article was updated on October 11, 2024