Priorities
Andrius: I write out below my wishes and plans for working together with individual investigators.
Collaboration Priorities
Encourage everybody to write letters between meetings and to work at the wiki and elsewhere.
Formology cohort
Get help from everybody on my investigation of How issues come to matter?
Montijn van Loo
- Meet one-on-one every other Tuesday. Meet with his cohort every other Tuesday.
- Focus on the question that he wants to investigate and the possibilities for designing investigations.
Jere Northrop
- Meet one-on-one every other week, assuming he writes letters.
Steph Macurdy
- Encourage him to write.
- Connect with him in January.
Marcus Petz
Mental robustness cohort
Enes Cakir
- Meet one-on-one every other week.
- Organize a cohort on mental robustness.
Ryan Buchanan
- Meet one-on-one every two weeks or so. Support his investigation, How do subtle effects, such as moods, influence our lives?
- Organize a new cohort around his time zone.
Luca Possati
- Can we define a minimal model of psychological well being based on Active Inference?
Robert Lustig and Philippe Gaussier
- Read Lustig's book and relate to my emotional theory.
- Meet with them in January.
Math and physics
John Harland
- Express his reducible representations in terms of the irreducible representations of Clifford algebras.
- Share my thoughts on halving entropy.
- Learn about quantum foundations.
- Learn about special relativity.
Thomas Gajdosik
- Meet monthly one-on-one.
- Work together to support John.
Math and Active Inference
Organize a study group to develop a course on the mathematical basis for Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle.
Luca Possati
- Meet regularly with Luca.
- Write a letter to Daniel Friedman to ask if the Active Inference Insitute would host our study group.
Peter Thestrup Waade
- Present him my alternative to Active Inference, ask for advice on resonating with communities and individuals, and on my software project and funding.
- How might he like to collaborate?
Daniel Friedman
- Write a letter with Luca to ask Daniel if the Active Inference Institute would host our study group.
Theory Translator
Camilo Signorelli
- Understand subjective experience from different angles.
- Invite him to the email group.
- Invite him to Enes's cohort.
Tom Froese
- Read his papers on 1/e and irruption theory. Include him in the Theory Translator. Meet with him in January.
Alexander Berezkin
- Meet with him in January on consciousness, interdisciplinarity, and how different theoretical languages try to translate between perspectives
Lithuania: Math
Andrej Bugajev
- Connect with him after I upload the video from VGTU.
- Meet monthly one-on-one.
- Show him more of the math: Moebius transformations, Yoneda lemma.
- Understand his interests, mathematical and more.
- Organize meetings at VGTU and elsewhere.
Lithuania: Culture
Alvydas Jegelevičius
- What is a question he would investigate?
Faith
Carlos Cañas
- Is there a question he would investigate?
- How could we follow Jesus's teachings?
Connect further
- Pedro Resende. Reply to him and meet in January.
- Ty Roachford. Reply to his letter.
- Alexander Maier. Reply to his letter.
Reconnect
Reconnect - especially with email group members
- Posina Venkata Rayudu
- Francis Atta Howard - partition functions, halving entropy, energy
- Michael Schreiber
- Lucy Weir
- Max Kelly. Meet with him again, learn about his interests and activities.
- Alex Kiefer. What question is he investigating?
- Carrie Girstantas.
Earlier plans