# Active Inference, Information, Human Evolution Presenter: Michael Walker Contribution: Pre-recorded Video presentation Public ID: talk-dba92aa493206478 ## Submitted abstract Tiny social units of Pliocene Hominina fostered exchange among and between adults, youngsters and babies, about information gleaned and garnered by Active Inference. Henceforth, human evolution would involve the prehistory of "Homo informatio" whose biological, social, technological, and cultural legacy is an outcome of evolutionary 'snakes and ladders' autopoiesis and self-evidencing, indicated by archaeological irregular regularities and regular irrrgularities in the worldwide Pleistocene spatiotemporal record (as only is to be expected by the itinerancy of stochastic markovian processes), and of uneven imperceptible network-spread between social units, individuals, and, naturally, their cerebral neuronal microcircuits. Spreading, deep, informational networks characterised and underpinned human evolution during four million years. They do so still. "Mighty oaks from litte acorns grow", Geoffrey Chaucer, dixit in "Troilus and Creysede" in 1374. Source: [submitted source]() Abstract SHA256: 7c8da7406616421f522639d32cab02420c3042b0ff5bc548b61157c81d446631 ## Organizer review checklist - [ ] Confirm the submitted title, presenter, and abstract with the presenter. - [ ] Confirm contribution format and scheduling needs. - [ ] Confirm public permissions for any additional material before publication. - [ ] Prepare discussion questions grounded in the submitted abstract. ## Public learning resources These approved event resources are starting points; topic relevance and author identity have not been inferred. - Active Inference Ontology: https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Active_Inference_Ontology - Cognitive Agent Modeling: https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/ActiveInferenceImplementations - GEO-INFER: https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/GEO_INFER - Generalized Notation Notation: https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Generalized_Notation_Notation - pymdp: https://github.com/infer-actively/pymdp - Reproducible publication template: https://github.com/docxology/template OpenAlex discovery-only search (not a verified identity or literature match): https://openalex.org/works?search=Active%20Inference%2C%20Information%2C%20Human%20Evolution