Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artifacts, and Embodied Visual Search

Soil organic matter persistence in hyperhumic colluvial soils caused by palaeofires, root inputs and mineral binding

Author(s): Joeri Kaal, Antonio Martínez Cortizas, Gerrit Angst, Cynthia Kallenbach, Cruz Ferro Vázquez, Felipe Criado-Boado
Published in: Organic Geochemistry, Issue 195, 2024, Page(s) 104848, ISSN 0146-6380
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2024.104848

Shifting boundaries, extended minds: ambient technology and extended allostatic control

Author(s): Ben White, Andy Clark, Avel Guènin-Carlut, Axel Constant, Laura Desirée Di Paolo
Published in: Synthese, Issue 205, 2025, ISSN 1573-0964
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-025-04924-9

Narrative as active inference: an integrative account of cognitive and social functions in adaptation

Author(s): Nabil Bouizegarene, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Axel Constant, Karl J. Friston, Laurence J. Kirmayer
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 1664-1078
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1345480

Material culture both reflects and causes human cognitive evolution

Author(s): Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Ben White, Avel Guénin–Carlut, Axel Constant, Andy Clark
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Issue 48, 2025, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x2400092x

¿Cómo se mira la cerámica griega clásica? Un experimento en el MAN para estudiar la evolución del arte

Author(s): Verdonkschot, Jadranka; Criado-Boado, Felipe; Martínez-Otero, Felipe; Silva-Gago, María; Valiño-Pérez, Arturo;
Published in: Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 2025, Page(s) 253-260, ISSN 2341-3409
Publisher: Museo Arqueológico Nacional
DOI: 10.71363/boman.v44.a19

Gazed Pottery: an Archaeometric-Cognitive Approach to Material Culture Visuality

Author(s): Criado-Boado, Felipe, Luis M. Martínez, Manuel J. Blanco, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Yolanda Porto, y Elena del Barrio-Álvarez
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science, Issue 154, 2023, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 0305-4403
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2023.105770

Editorial: Bio A.I. - from embodied cognition to enactive robotics

Author(s): Adam Safron, Inês Hipólito, Andy Clark
Published in: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Issue 17, 2023, ISSN 1662-5218
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2023.1301993

Conscious artificial intelligence and biological naturalism

Author(s): Anil K. Seth
Published in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2025, Page(s) 1-42, ISSN 0140-525X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25000032

Reflexivity and the Market Mind Hypothesis: Why George Soros is Not a Failed Philosopher (and What it Means for Economics, the Economy, and Investing)

Author(s): Patrick Schotanus, Ron Chrisley, Andy Clark, Duncan Pritchard, Aaron Schurger
Published in: SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023, ISSN 1556-5068
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3939493

Extending Minds with Generative AI

Author(s): Andy Clark
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-59906-9

Digital Being: social media and the predictive mind

Author(s): Ben White, Andy Clark, Mark Miller
Published in: Neuroscience of Consciousness, Issue 2024, 2024, ISSN 2057-2107
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/nc/niae008

The Influence of Hand Dimensions on Finger Flexion during Lower Paleolithic Stone Tool Use in a Comfortable Grip

Author(s): Annapaola Fedato, María Silva-Gago, Marcos Terradillos-Bernal, Rodrigo Alonso-Alcalde, Emiliano Bruner
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 7, 2025, Page(s) 29, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/quat7030029

Strange things, statespace representation, and participatory realism Comment on “Path Integrals, Particular Kinds, and Strange Things.” by Friston et al.

Author(s): Avel Guénin-Carlut
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, Issue 47, 2025, Page(s) 268-270, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.10.027

Outline of a theory of breakage

Author(s): Vindrola-Padrós, Bruno
Published in: Anthropological Theory, Issue 23(3), 2023, Page(s) 255-291, ISSN 1741-2641
Publisher: SAGE
DOI: 10.1177/14634996221139900

Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI

Author(s): Giovanni Pezzulo, Thomas Parr, Paul Cisek, Andy Clark, Karl Friston
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 97-112, ISSN 1364-6613
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.10.002

Somatosensory false feedback biases emotional ratings through interoceptive embodiment

Author(s): Joel Patchitt, Sarah Garfinkel, William H. Strawson, Mark Miller, Manos Tsakiris, Andy Clark, Hugo D. Critchley
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-94971-6

Materialities, Space, Mind: Archaeology of Visual Cognition

Author(s): Millán-Pascual, Rafael; Martínez, Luis M.; Alonso-Pablos, Diego; Blanco, Manuel J.; Verdonkschot, Jadranka; Criado-Boado, Felipe
Published in: Journal of Neolithic Archaeology, Issue 25, 2023, Page(s) 67-88, ISSN 2197-649X
Publisher: Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University
DOI: 10.12766/jna.2023.3

Theta/gamma Co-modulation Disruption After NMDAr Blockade by MK-801 Is Associated with Spatial Working Memory Deficits in Mice

Author(s): P. Abad-Perez, F.J. Molina-Payá, L. Martínez-Otero, V. Borrell, R.L. Redondo, J.R. Brotons-Mas
Published in: Neuroscience, Issue 519, 2025, Page(s) 162-176, ISSN 0306-4522
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.03.022

Archaeologiques of sight: The visual world fosters the engagement between doing, seeing, and thinking

Author(s): Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M. Martínez, Manuel J. Blanco, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Jadranka Verdonkschot
Published in: Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Issue 73, 2025, Page(s) 101568, ISSN 0278-4165
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2023.101568

Figure recognition and visual attention patterns behind the observation of Palaeolithic art

Author(s): María Silva-Gago, Marcos García-Diez, Emiliano Bruner, Luis M. Martínez, Felipe Criado-Boado
Published in: Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, Issue 9, 2025, Page(s) 225-241, ISSN 2520-100X
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s41809-025-00170-0

Ditches in focus

Author(s): Kata Furholt, Martin Furholt, Mira Majdán, Gábor Bertók, Fynn Wilkes, Sebastian Schultrich, Erik Riese
Published in: Documenta Praehistorica, Issue 52, 2025, Page(s) 336-354, ISSN 1408-967X
Publisher: Univerza v Ljubljani
DOI: 10.4312/dp.52.12

Editorial: Predictive Processing and Consciousness

Author(s): Mark Miller, Andy Clark, Tobias Schlicht
Published in: Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Issue 13, 2023, Page(s) 797-808, ISSN 1878-5158
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-022-00666-6

Cultivating creativity: predictive brains and the enlightened room problem

Author(s): Axel Constant, Karl John Friston, Andy Clark
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 379, 2024, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0415

A computational approach to selective attention in embodied approaches to cognitive archaeology

Author(s): Axel Constant, Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Avel Guénin-Carlut, Luis M. Martinez, Felipe Criado-Boado, Johannes Müeller, Andy Clark
Published in: Journal of The Royal Society Interface, Issue 21, 2024, ISSN 1742-5689
Publisher: The Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0508

Frequency‐domain analysis of <scp>fNIRS</scp> fluctuations induced by rhythmic mental arithmetic

Author(s): Sergio Molina‐Rodríguez, Marcos Mirete‐Fructuoso, Luis M. Martínez, Joaquín Ibañez‐Ballesteros
Published in: Psychophysiology, Issue 59, 2023, ISSN 0048-5772
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/psyp.14063

Agentic rulebooks using active inference: an artificial intelligence application for environmental sustainability

Author(s): Axel Constant, Mahault Albarracin, Marco Perin, Hari Thiruvengada, Karl J. Friston
Published in: Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, Issue 7, 2025, ISSN 2624-9634
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/frsc.2025.1571613

Materialidades, espacio, pensamiento: arqueología de la cognición visual

Author(s): Millán-Pascual, Rafael, Luis Martinez, Diego Alonso-Pablos, Manuel Blanco, & Felipe Criado-Boado
Published in: Trabajos de Prehistoria, Issue 78(1), 2021, Page(s) 7-25, ISSN 1988-3218
Publisher: Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas
DOI: 10.3989/tp.2021.12262

Images on Stone in Sharjah Emirate and reverse engeneering technologies

Author(s): Otero, Xosefina; Santos-Estévez, Manuel; Yousif, Eisa and Farjas-Abadía, Mercedes
Published in: Rock Art Research, 2023, ISSN 0813-0426
Publisher: Archaeological Publications

The strangest particles in the world

Author(s): Andy Clark, Axel Constant
Published in: Physics of Life Reviews, Issue 48, 2025, Page(s) 169-171, ISSN 1571-0645
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.12.008

A guide to the mechanisms of transformation: The role of materials in cognitive change

Author(s): Bruno Vindrola-Padrós, Lizzie Scholtus, Kata Furholt, Johannes Müller
Published in: Archaeological Dialogues, 2025, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 1380-2038
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1380203825100159

Evidence of spatial periodic firing in the subiculum of mice

Author(s): P. Abad-Perez, G. Rigamonti, F. J. Molina-Paya, G. Cabral-Pereira, Miriam Esteve-Campello, R. Scott, V. Borrell, L. Martínez-Otero, A. Falco, J. R. Brotons-Mas
Published in: Frontiers in Neural Circuits, Issue 19, 2025, ISSN 1662-5110
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2025.1648844

Os usos da categoria “sítio arqueológico” desde os lugares de repressão e resistência

Author(s): Márcia Lika Hattori, Aline Feitoza de Oliveira, Edson Luis De Almeida Teles
Published in: Vestígios - Revista Latino-Americana de Arqueologia Histórica, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 277-298, ISSN 2316-9699
Publisher: Revista Latino-Americana De Arqueologia Historica
DOI: 10.31239/a6ed7t84

ChatGPT, extended: large language models and the extended mind

Author(s): Paul Smart, Robert Clowes, Andy Clark
Published in: Synthese, Issue 205, 2025, ISSN 1573-0964
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-025-05046-y

The Acquisition of Culturally Patterned Attention Styles Under Active Inference

Author(s): Constant, Axel, Alexander Daniel Dunsmoir Tschantz, Beren Millidge, Felipe Criado-Boado, Luis M Martinez, Johannes Müeller, & Andy Clark
Published in: Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Issue 15, 2021, Page(s) 1-13, ISSN 1662-5218
Publisher: Frontiers Research Foundation
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2021.729665

A Bayesian model of legal syllogistic reasoning

Author(s): Axel Constant
Published in: Artificial Intelligence and Law, Issue 32, 2024, Page(s) 441-462, ISSN 0924-8463
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10506-023-09357-8

Montessori, math, and materials: a case of extended cognition

Author(s): Patrick R. Frierson, Laura Desiree Di Paolo
Published in: Synthese, Issue 205, 2025, ISSN 1573-0964
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-025-05014-6

Expecting some action: Predictive Processing and the construction of conscious experience

Author(s): Kathryn Nave, George Deane, Mark Miller, Andy Clark
Published in: Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 1019-1037, ISSN 1878-5158
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13164-022-00644-y

Hacking the Predictive Mind

Author(s): Andy Clark
Published in: Entropy, Issue 26, 2025, Page(s) 677, ISSN 1099-4300
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/e26080677

Active inference goes to school: the importance of active learning in the age of large language models

Author(s): Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, Ben White, Avel Guénin-Carlut, Axel Constant, Andy Clark
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 379, 2024, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0148

Scales of Scientific Interaction. The New Integrative Archaeology

Author(s): Müller, Johannes
Published in: The Future of Archaeology, 2025
Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications

Mind Unlimited?

Author(s): Andy Clark
Published in: Extreme Philosophy, 2024, Page(s) 123-137
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003311065-9

La decoración de las saunas galaicas. Un análisis en tres dimensiones

Author(s): Santos-Estevez, Manuel
Published in: Saunas Protohistóricas en Iberia, 2024, ISBN 978-84-129570-0-6
Publisher: Real Instituto de Estudios Asturianos

Os mortos daquel verán: a cadea técnico-operativa do terror fascista na Pobra do Brollón

Author(s): Ayán Vila, Xurxo; Martinez-Barrio, Candela; Hattori, Márcia Lika ; Otero-Vilarino, C. ; Franco-Fernandez, Manuel A.
Published in: Os mortos daquel verán: a cadea técnico-operativa do terror fascista na Pobra do Brollón, 2025
Publisher: Edicións Positivas

Burial mounds and the social practices of the Central European Early Bronze Age

Author(s): Müller, J. and Czebreszukb, J.
Published in: Bronzization, 2025
Publisher: Archaeopress

Proporção e estrutura na escultura galaica. O simbolismo da geometria na Idade do Ferro

Author(s): Santos-Estevez, Manuel
Published in: Estéticas de poder. Expressões plásticas na II Idade do Ferro do Noroeste Peninsular, 2024, ISBN 978-972-8180-70-6
Publisher: Centro Interpretativo do Monte Padrão

Power, ritual, and identity - A cognitive study of conversion to the Unification Church

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT, Isaac Dubourg
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2024
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/wg36c

Repenser l’éducation et la technologie pour l’Anthropocène: de l’inférence active à la technopolitique située

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT, Laura Desirée Di Paolo
Published in: Revue Œconomia Humana, 2024
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/rz3ju

The Gap Is Relational - Open-endedness, Biological Information, and the Limitations of In Silico ALife

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2025
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/3u4wp_v1

Contextuality, Cognitive Engagement, and Active Inference

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: Active Inference. IWAI 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2024
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/wtrgh

From the existential stance to social constraints - How the human mind becomes embedded in our social, cultural and material context

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2024
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/3kyzt

The cognitive archeology of sociocultural lifeforms

Author(s): Guénin--Carlut, Avel, Ben White, & Lorena Sganzerla
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2023
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/qxszh

On Embedded Normativity - An Active Inference account of agency beyond flesh

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT; Mahault Albarracin
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2023
Publisher: Center for Open science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7x8cm

On cliodynamic realism - Is there such a thing as the “dynamics” of history?

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2025
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/7239k_v1

Agency and contextuality in cognitive psychology - From Active Inference to (cognitive) frame analysis

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2025
Publisher: OSF Preprints
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/et2wp_v1

Is the ecological redirection possible? An ALife perspective on sociocultural evolution in the Anthropocene

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/bcyku

Physics of creation - Symmetry breaking, (en)active inference, and unfolding statespaces

Author(s): Avel GUÉNIN--CARLUT
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2025
Publisher: Center for Open Science
DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/68947

Modelling the social construction of preferences in financial economics (preprint).pdf

Author(s): Guénin–Carlut, Avel; Benazouz Sarah
Published in: OSF Preprints, 2024
Publisher: OSF Preprints

The Illusionist Brain

Author(s): Jordi Camí, Luis M. Martínez
Published in: The Illusionist Brain, 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
DOI: 10.1515/9780691239156

O Santuario de Laxe dos Bolos, Caldas de Reis. Onde o Sol Alumea a Vella Montaña

Author(s): Santos-Estevez, Manuel; Cabrejas Domínguez, Elena
Published in: O Santuario de Laxe dos Bolos, Caldas de Reis. Onde o Sol Alumea a Vella Montaña, 2023
Publisher: Concello de Caldas de Reis

The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

Author(s): Andy Clark
Published in: The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, 2023
Publisher: Pantheon

Building Space: The Structural Model of Megalithic Space

Author(s): Verdonkschot, Jadranka; Criado-Boado, Felipe
Published in: Proceedings of the European Megalithic Studies Group Meeting 2022 (Archaeopress), 2022
Publisher: Proceedings of the European Megalithic Studies Group Meeting 2022 (Archaeopress)

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