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  "title": "An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science: from Situated Sensemaking to the Epistemic Commons",
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      "name": "Balbuena, Jessica Angeli",
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      "name": "Choudhury, Arhan",
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      "name": "El Damaty, Shady",
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      "name": "Guénin—Carlut, Avel",
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    {
      "name": "Knight, V. Bleu",
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      "name": "Metelkin, Ivan",
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      "name": "Shrivastava, Siddhant",
      "affiliation": "Active Inference Institute, Complexity Weekend, Kernel",
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      "name": "Singh, Amit Kumar",
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      "name": "Smékal, Jakub",
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      "name": "Tuttle. Caleb",
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    {
      "name": "Free energy minimization",
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    "We describe the Active Inference Ontology, a formal knowledge structure mapping the concepts, relations, and entities in the Active Inference and Free Energy Principle literature.",
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