# Alexander Hemming These are self-reported registration answers, not an assessment or a verified identity. ## Background I ai to explain political psychology work through the lens of active inference. My current work aims to highlight how inaccuracy lowers factorial depth to broaden the search, creating latent hypotheses with a lower factorial depth. This increases the probability of category blindness and conflation with conceptual distinctions through contextualisation and can lead to dissociative absorption as bayes optimality chooses a conflated or inaccurate conceptual category. I aim to adapt this to the study of political pschology. ## Active Inference Application I am aiming to explain political psychology processes through active inference, while writing a book on the explanation of Ideology through active inference. ## Learning Needs No answer provided. ## 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