# William Niemi

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## Background

I am a Swedish graduate student in Cognitive Science. I have many interests including meaning, consciousness, motivation, decision-making, mythology, philosophy of mind etc. Aside from those, creativity is close to me both intellectually and personally, with music as a primary interest. I wrote my latest thesis was on neural complexity as a correlate of wakefulness in sedated and sleep deprived subjects, which is publicly available here:

## Active Inference Application

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## Learning Needs

Project opportunities and more university-level courses

## Provided resources

Starting points supplied by the organizers; relevance and suitability have not been assessed.

Generalized Notation Notation

A text-based notation system for communicating generative models and Active Inference systems that provides a shared language for describing models in a human-readable and machine-processable way.

https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Generalized_Notation_Notation

pymdp

Community Python library implementing Active Inference for POMDPs.

https://github.com/infer-actively/pymdp

Active Inference Ontology

Maintains and develops the public ontology for Active Inference and decentralized science with structured, machine-readable definitions.

https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/Active_Inference_Ontology

GEO-INFER

Geospatial modeling using Active Inference and spatial data analysis techniques.

https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/GEO_INFER

Cognitive Agent Modeling

Developing minimal cognitive agent models using Active Inference principles.

https://github.com/ActiveInferenceInstitute/ActiveInferenceImplementations

Reproducible publication template

Manuscript infrastructure used to render this Symposium abstract book as PDF and Word documents.

https://github.com/docxology/template