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Axel Constant

Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture
2019 · Samuel P. L. Veissière, Axel Constant, et al. · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 347
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A variational approach to niche construction
2018 · Axel Constant, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, et al. · Journal of The Royal Society Interface · 204
Cheap Correlate or Discriminating Property? An Executable Validation Protocol for Consciousness- and Cognition-Theoretic Claims about AI
2023 · Butlin, Patrick, Long, Robert, et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 196
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Regimes of Expectations: An Active Inference Model of Social Conformity and Human Decision Making
2019 · Axel Constant, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 170
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Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism
2019 · Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Michael D. Kirchhoff, et al. · Synthese · 150
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Variational ecology and the physics of sentient systems
2019 · Maxwell J.D. Ramstead, Axel Constant, et al. · Physics of Life Reviews · 142
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Extended active inference: Constructing predictive cognition beyond skulls
2020 · Axel Constant, Andy Clark, et al. · Mind & Language · 108
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The first prior: From co-embodiment to co-homeostasis in early life
2021 · Anna Ciaunica, Axel Constant, et al. · Consciousness and Cognition · 105
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Representation Wars: Enacting an Armistice Through Active Inference
2021 · Axel Constant, Andy Clark, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 96
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A World Unto Itself: Human Communication as Active Inference
2020 · Jared Vasil, Paul B. Badcock, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 95
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From Generative Models to Generative Passages: A Computational Approach to (Neuro) Phenomenology
2022 · Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Anil K. Seth, et al. · Review of Philosophy and Psychology · 84
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A Multi-scale View of the Emergent Complexity of Life: A Free-Energy Proposal
2019 · Casper Hesp, Maxwell Ramstead, et al. · Springer proceedings in complexity · 63
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Identifying indicators of consciousness in AI systems
2025 · Patrick Butlin, Robert Long, et al. · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 54
Narrative as active inference: an integrative account of cognitive and social functions in adaptation
2024 · Nabil Bouizegarene, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 50
Precise Worlds for Certain Minds: An Ecological Perspective on the Relational Self in Autism
2018 · Axel Constant, Jo Bervoets, et al. · Topoi · 49
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Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle
2020 · Maxwell J.D. Ramstead, Casper Hesp, et al. · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 43
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Integrating Evolutionary, Cultural, and Computational Psychiatry: A Multilevel Systemic Approach
2022 · Axel Constant, Paul Badcock, et al. · Frontiers in Psychiatry · 42
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Narrative as active inference
2020 · Nabil Bouizegarene, maxwell ramstead, et al. · 34
A Variational Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics
2023 · Karl Friston, Daniel A. Friedman, et al. · Entropy · 32
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Federated inference and belief sharing
2023 · Karl J. Friston, Thomas Parr, et al. · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews · 30
Why Depressed Mood is Adaptive: A Numerical Proof of Principle for an Evolutionary Systems Theory of Depression
2021 · Axel Constant, Casper Hesp, et al. · Computational Psychiatry · 30
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A Variational Approach to Scripts
2021 · Mahault Albarracin, Axel Constant, et al. · Frontiers in Psychology · 28
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Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior
2021 · Daniel Ari Friedman, Alec Tschantz, et al. · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience · 27
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The free energy principle: it’s not about what it takes, it’s about what took you there
2021 · Axel Constant · Biology & Philosophy · 21
Cultivating creativity: predictive brains and the enlightened room problem
2023 · Axel Constant, Karl John Friston, et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 19
Works count: 80
Citation count: 2,401
H-index: 23
I10-index: 32
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