# 🛡️ Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception

**Daniel Ari Friedman** (2023) · *Zenodo*

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## Abstract

> This paper analyzes Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer through the lens of Active Inference, exploring the relationship between bare life and political existence in Western politics. It connects Agamben's concepts with cognitive sovereignty and revolutionary science, asserting that epistemic agency is grounded in the cognitive sovereign's policy selection.

## Keywords

`cognitive sovereignty` · `Agamben` · `Homo Sacer` · `Active Inference` · `state of exception` · `Thomas Kuhn` · `paradigm shifts` · `epistemic agency` · `biopolitics` · `bare life`

## Key Contributions

- Introduces the concept of cognitive sovereignty in relation to Agamben's Homo Sacer.
- Connects Agamben's state of exception with Thomas Kuhn's theory of revolutionary science.
- Explores the implications of Active Inference for understanding sovereignty and agency.
- Provides pseudocode for an 'Active Stateference' model.

## Methods

- Analyzes Homo Sacer through the framework of Active Inference.
- Draws parallels between Agamben's concepts and cognitive theories.
- Utilizes philosophical analysis to explore the dynamics of power and knowledge.
- Presents a computational model (pseudocode) for the Active Stateference entity.

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## Citation

```bibtex
@article{2023_CognitiveSovereignty,
  author = {Daniel Ari Friedman},
  title = {{Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception}},
  journal = {Zenodo},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10038232},
}
```

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