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Daniel Ari Friedman, PhD

Computational biologist, Active Inference researcher, cognitive security researcher, educator, and artist · California, USA, Earth

Multidisciplinary researcher and open-source builder working across social insect biology, Active Inference, cognitive security, computational frameworks, education, and art.

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danielarifriedman@gmail.com daniel@activeinference.institute

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https://danielarifriedman.com/ https://cognitivesecurity.us

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195curated works

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344 + 40public GitHub repositories by account

777Google Scholar citations (as of 2026-06-09)

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Education (4)

  1. 2019-2023

    Postdoctoral Fellow — University of California, Davis — Davis, CA, USA

    Co-mentors: Prof. Brian Johnson (UC Davis) and Prof. Tim Linksvayer (Arizona State University).

    NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (PRFB), award DBI-2010290; NSF budget period 2020-2022 with affiliation extending to 2023.

    Genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and behavior in eusocial insects, mainly ants and bees.

    Science research, mentoring, participation, service, and organizing events and communities online.

    NSF DBI-2010290 UC Davis

  2. 2014-2019

    PhD — Stanford University — Stanford, CA, USA

    Advisor: Professor Deborah M. Gordon, Biology.

    Research, teaching, service, and coursework from Summer 2014 to Summer 2019.

    Thesis topics: ant ecology, collective behavior, brain gene expression, and neurometabolism.

    Stanford Graduate Fellow (Urbanek Family Fellowship), 2014-2017.

    Co-organizer of the Stanford Complexity Group, 2016-2019.

    Stanford Neuroscience NeuroChoice Grant for neurometabolism in ants, 2019, $25,000.

    Stanford Systems Biology Seed Grant for gene expression and behavior in ants, 2018, $25,000.

    Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Award, American Museum of Natural History, 2016, $2,500.

    Lewis and Clark Fund grant, American Philosophical Society, 2016, $4,000.

    NSF GRFP Honorable Mention, 2015 and 2016.

    Stanford dissertation

  3. 2010-2014

    BSc in Genetics — University of California, Davis — Davis, CA, USA

    BSc in Genetics, University of California, Davis.

    Genetics Department Citation, Highest Honors, 2014; 3.74 GPA overall.

    Campus Community Service Silver Award, 2014.

    Stanley and Jacqueline Schilling Award for Service, 2014.

    Completed the Population Biology Graduate Group one-year base PhD curriculum, 2013.

    Co-founder of The Aggie Transcript, an undergraduate biology journal, 2014.

    Victoria Finnerty Award for Research in Drosophila, 2013.

    Elected member of Phi Beta Kappa, UC Davis Chapter, 2014.

    Co-organizer of the Chess Club at UC Davis, 2012-2014.

    Research Scholars Program in Insect Biology, 2011-2014.

    Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship for Drosophila research, 2011, $2,500.

    UC Davis

Experience (16)

  1. 2026-ongoing

    Del Norte Triplicate — Typographical Editor

    Typographical editing for The Triplicate newspaper of Del Norte County and Crescent City.

    Community Organization

    The Triplicate

  2. 2021-ongoing

    Active Inference Institute — Co-founder, Participant, Officer, President, Treasurer

    Co-founded the Active Inference Institute; current President and Treasurer.

    Community Organization

    AII officers AII

  3. 2019-2024

    Complexity Adventures — Co-founder, Facilitator, Participant, Organizer

    Organized activities and community around learning and applying complexity science.

    Community Organization

    Complexity Adventures profile

  4. 2019-ongoing

    COGSEC — Researcher

    Research facilitation and participation on initiatives related to cognitive security.

    Community Organization

    COGSEC

  5. 2014-2019

    Stanford Complexity Group — Organizer, Participant

    Organized the Stanford Complexity Group while it was active.

    Community Organization

    Stanford verification

  6. 2025-2026

    Stealth Startup — Operator

    Systems modeling and related work to be public later.

    Startup

    verification

  7. 2023-2024

    Stealth Startup — Co-founder, Operator

    Stealth Active Inference startup.

    Startup

    verification

  8. 2019-2023

    Remotor — Co-founder, Researcher

    Education, online event planning, and consulting for remote teams.

    Startup

    verification

  9. 2017-2019

    fm.analytics — Co-founder, Researcher

    Predictive analytics and dashboard visualizations with Prof. Glenn Magerman at KU Leuven.

    Startup

    verification

  10. 2017-2019

    Cryptoptera — Co-founder, Researcher

    Three-person cryptocurrency research group.

    Startup

    verification

  11. 2019-2023

    Johnson Lab / Linksvayer Lab — Mentor, Researcher

    Postdoctoral position during NSF fellowship with Brian Johnson at UC Davis and Tim Linksvayer at Arizona State University.

    Research

    Johnson Lab UC Davis

  12. 2014-2019

    Gordon Lab — Mentor, Researcher

    Graduate research, field work, wet lab, bioinformatics, and mentoring of high schoolers, undergraduates, graduate students, and non-academics.

    Research

    Gordon Lab

  13. 2010-2014

    Kopp Lab — Researcher

    Undergraduate research assistant with Prof. Artyom Kopp in Ecology and Evolution at UC Davis, studying non-coding DNA elements in the evolution of the Drosophila foreleg sex comb.

    Research

    UC Davis Biology

  14. 2014-2019

    Pedicab People Movers — Operator

    Operated a pedicab/rickshaw at events including music festivals in California and downtown areas in Davis and San Jose.

    Pedicab

    verification

  15. 2015-2016

    Stanford University — Teacher, Organizer, Graduate Teaching Assistant

    Graduate Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses: General Biology: Cell and Molecular Biology (2015) and Ethics of Evolutionary Biology (2016).

    Teaching

    Stanford Biology

  16. 2014

    UC Davis — Teacher, Organizer, Course Co-developer

    Student teacher and developmental biology course co-developer with Prof. Susan Keen at UC Davis.

    Teaching

    UC Davis Biology

Awards and Fellowships (12)

  1. 2020

    NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology

    Award DBI-2010290; NSF budget period 2020-2022.

    NSF DBI-2010290

  7. 2015

    NSF GRFP Honorable Mention

    Honorable Mention in 2015 and 2016.

    NSF GRFP

  9. 2014

    UC Davis service awards

    Campus Community Service Silver Award and Stanley and Jacqueline Schilling Award for Service.

    UC Davis

Works and Publications (195)

  1. [1] 2026 Paper A template/ approach to Reproducible Generative Research: Architecture and Ergonomics from Configuration through Publication · Zenodo
  2. [2] 2026 Series Active Inference Journal — 500+ videos on Active Inference with transcripts · YouTube
  3. [3] 2026 Paper Before Pragmatism Had a Name: Blake's "America A Prophecy" Anticipates American Anticipatory Epistemology · Zenodo
  4. [4] 2026 Paper The Golden Compass and the Lunar Flux: William Blake, Bimetallic Meta-stability, and the Architecture of Value · Zenodo
  5. [5] 2026 Paper Cognitive Integrity Framework: Formal Foundations for Multiagent Security (Part 1: Theory) · Zenodo
  6. [6] 2026 Series Personal YouTube — 200+ livestreams: drawings, Synergetics, paper discussions · YouTube
  7. [7] 2026 Paper The Doors of Perception are the Threshold of Prediction: Active Inference and William Blake's Theory of Seeing · Zenodo
  8. [8] 2025 Presentation 5th Applied Active Inference Symposium — Abstract Book · Presentation
  9. [9] 2025 Paper Adaptive Basic Income (AuBI): Integrating AI, Decentralized Infrastructure, and Active Inference · Zenodo
  10. [10] 2025 Paper CEREBRUM: Case-Enabled Reasoning Engine with Bayesian Representations for Unified Modeling · Zenodo
  11. [11] 2025 Paper Computational Complexity and Energetics of the Ant Stack · Zenodo
  12. [12] 2025 Paper EvoJump: Stochastic Modeling of Evolutionary Ontogenetic Trajectories · Zenodo
  13. [13] 2025 Paper Increasing the Accessibility and Applicability of Active Inference · Zenodo
  14. [14] 2025 Paper MDKV: A Multitrack Markdown Container for Structured, Portable Documents · Zenodo
  15. [15] 2025 Paper Markdown Decision Process: A Framework for Probabilistic Document Analysis · Zenodo
  16. [16] 2025 Paper On Cognitive Art & Science: Toward Wholeness From Both Sides · Zenodo
  17. [17] 2025 Paper On Time · Zenodo
  18. [18] 2025 Paper QuadMath: An Analytical Review of 4D and Quadray Coordinates · Zenodo
  19. [19] 2025 Paper ResNei: Solution Design Document · Zenodo
  20. [20] 2025 Paper Symergetics: Symbolic Synergetics for Rational Arithmetic · Zenodo
  21. [21] 2025 Paper Synthesis of Agent and Niche · Zenodo
  22. [22] 2025 Presentation Systems Processes, Active Inference, and Beyond · Presentation
  23. [23] 2025 Paper Temporal Depth in a Coherent Self and in Depersonalization · Frontiers in Psychology
  24. [24] 2025 Paper The Active Inference Institute & Active Inference Ecosystem (v3, 2025 snapshot) · Zenodo
  25. [25] 2025 Paper The Ant Stack · Zenodo
  26. [26] 2025 Paper The Discovery Engine: AI-Driven Synthesis and Navigation of Scientific Knowledge Landscapes · ArXiv
  27. [27] 2025 Paper Thoughtseeds: A Hierarchical and Agentic Framework for Investigating Thought Dynamics in Meditative States · Entropy
  28. [28] 2025 Paper Towards a Science of Consciousness and Social Complexity... For Ants · Book Chapter
  29. [29] 2024 Paper Aligning Active Inference Ontology to SUMO · Zenodo
  30. [30] 2024 Presentation BioFirm Development at Applied Active Inference Symposium 2024 · Presentation
  31. [31] 2024 Paper Bridging gaps in image meme research: A multidisciplinary paradigm · JASIST
  32. [32] 2024 Paper Chemical and transcriptomic diversity do not correlate with ascending levels of social complexity in Blattodea · Ecology & Evolution
  33. [33] 2024 Paper Comments on National Digital Twins R&D Strategic Plan · Zenodo
  34. [34] 2024 Paper Enhancing Population-based Search with Active Inference · ArXiv
  35. [35] 2024 Paper FarmWorks: Decentralized AI Agents for Personalized Solutions · Zenodo
  36. [36] 2024 Paper Federated inference and belief sharing · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  37. [37] 2024 Paper Four-fold Fields of Quantum Dreams · Zenodo
  38. [38] 2024 Presentation MathArt Stream #8: William Blake and Active Inference · Presentation
  39. [39] 2024 Presentation Sensemaking Federation: Exploring the Frontiers of Digital Innovation · Presentation
  40. [40] 2024 Paper Shared Protentions in Multi-Agent Active Inference · Entropy
  41. [41] 2024 Paper The Active Inference Institute & Active Inference Ecosystem (v2, 2024 snapshot) · Zenodo
  42. [42] 2024 Paper Way Finding in the Infinite Imaginarium · Zenodo
  43. [43] 2024 Paper Why Paleolithic Rockstars were both enigmatic and sporadic · Physics of Life Reviews
  44. [44] 2024 Paper Writing on Curio Cards for the "On NFT" book · Taschen
  45. [45] 2023 Paper A guided tour through the spaces of particular "minds" · Physics of Life Reviews
  46. [46] 2023 Paper A single-pheromone model accounts for empirical patterns of ant colony foraging · Cognitive Systems Research
  47. [47] 2023 Paper A snapshot and pipeline for tissue-specific gene expression meta-analysis in honey bees · Zenodo
  48. [48] 2023 Paper A variational synthesis of evolutionary and developmental dynamics · Entropy
  49. [49] 2023 Paper ATLAS: A Question Oriented Approach to Pattern Languages in Knowledge Management · Zenodo
  50. [50] 2023 Paper An Account of Active Inference Modeling · Zenodo
  51. [51] 2023 Paper Cognitive Sovereignty & Active Inference in the State of Exception · Zenodo
  52. [52] 2023 Paper Comments on AI Accountability Policy to NTIA · NTIA
  53. [53] 2023 Paper Distributed Science — The Scientific Process as Multi-Scale Active Inference · OSF
  54. [54] 2023 Paper Enhanced NSF Postdoctoral Reporting via Synthetic Intelligence Language Processing · Zenodo
  55. [55] 2023 Paper Experimental Entomology in the Age of Video · JoVE
  56. [56] 2023 Paper Generalized Notation Notation for Active Inference Models · Zenodo
  57. [57] 2023 Paper Generative Research Teams: Active Inference Compositions for Research and Meta-Science · Zenodo
  58. [58] 2023 Presentation Of Ants & Aging · Presentation
  59. [59] 2023 Paper Open Access science needs Open Science Sensemaking (OSSm) · MetaArXiv
  60. [60] 2023 Presentation Postdoc review (2020–2023) · Presentation
  61. [61] 2023 Paper The Active Inference Institute and Active Inference Ecosystem (v1) · Zenodo
  62. [62] 2023 Paper The P3IF: Properties, Processes, and Perspectives Inter-Framework · Zenodo
  63. [63] 2023 Paper To comment or not to comment · Physics of Life Reviews
  64. [64] 2023 Course Transcript of Chris Fields, "Physics as Information Processing" course · Zenodo
  65. [65] 2023 Paper William Blake & Buckminster Fuller: Lives in Juxtaposition · Zenodo
  66. [66] 2022 Paper An Active Inference Ontology for Decentralized Science · Zenodo
  67. [67] 2022 Paper Catechism for Towards Active Diffusion · Zenodo
  68. [68] 2022 Paper From Users to (Sense)Makers: Stigmergic Social Annotation · Hypertext '22
  69. [69] 2022 Paper On free will or the lack thereof (interview with Robert Sapolsky) · ALIUS Bulletin
  70. [70] 2022 Paper Predictive Processing Interpretation of the Mirror Test · Zenodo
  71. [71] 2022 Book Structuring the Information Commons: Open Standards and Cognitive Security · COGSEC.org
  72. [72] 2022 Paper Systems Modeling and Cognitive Audits for Hypercert Ecosystems · Zenodo
  73. [73] 2022 Paper The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference: a Systematic Literature Analysis · Zenodo
  74. [74] 2022 Paper TrustFinder: Recommendations for Community-Based Trust Systems · Zenodo
  75. [75] 2021 Paper Active Inferants: An Active Inference Framework for Ant Colony Behavior · Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  76. [76] 2021 Paper Active Inference in Modeling Conflict · Zenodo
  77. [77] 2021 Paper Digital Rhetorical Ecosystem Analysis: Sensemaking of Digital Memetic Discourse · Zenodo
  78. [78] 2021 Playbook Innovator's Digital Playbook · Web
  79. [79] 2021 Book Narrative Information Ecosystems: Conflict and Trust on the Endless Frontier · COGSEC.org
  80. [80] 2021 Paper Narrative Information Management · Zenodo
  81. [81] 2021 Playbook The Facilitator's Catechism Playbook · Zenodo
  82. [82] 2020 Paper Active Inference & Behavior Engineering for Teams · Zenodo
  83. [83] 2020 Course Communication for Remote Teams · Udemy
  84. [84] 2020 Paper Distributed physiology and the molecular basis of social life in eusocial insects · Hormones & Behavior
  85. [85] 2020 Paper Emergent Teams for Complex Threats · Zenodo
  86. [86] 2020 Paper Gene expression variation in the brains of harvester ant foragers is associated with collective behavior · Communications Biology
  87. [87] 2020 Course How to use Keybase for remote teams · Udemy
  88. [88] 2020 Paper Measurement of natural variation of neurotransmitter tissue content in red harvester ant brains · Analytical & Bioanalytical Chemistry
  89. [89] 2020 Book The Great Preset: Remote Teams and Operational Art · COGSEC.org
  90. [90] 2020 Paper The Innovator's Catechism · Zenodo
  91. [91] 2020 Paper The neuroscience of decision making (interview with Timothy Hanks) · ALIUS Bulletin
  92. [92] 2019 Paper Dennett Explained (interview with Daniel Dennett) · ALIUS Bulletin
  93. [93] 2019 Paper PhD: Behavioral, Physiological, and Transcriptomic Variation Among Colonies of Pogonomyrmex barbatus · Stanford University
  94. [94] 2019 Paper The ant colony as a test for scientific theories of consciousness · Synthese
  95. [95] 2019 Paper The physiology of forager hydration and variation among harvester ant colonies · Scientific Reports
  96. [96] 2018 Paper Foraging behavior and locomotion of the invasive Argentine ant from winter aggregations · PLoS One
  97. [97] 2018 Presentation MVEE: A Framework for Evolutionary Studies · Presentation
  98. [98] 2018 Paper Of woodlice and men: A Bayesian account of cognition, life and consciousness (with Karl Friston) · ALIUS Bulletin
  99. [99] 2018 Paper Partner Pen Play in Parallel (PPPiP): A New Paradigm for Relationship Improvement · Arts
  100. [100] 2018 Paper The Role of Dopamine in Collective Regulation of Foraging in Harvester Ants · iScience
  101. [101] 2017 Paper The MutAnts are here · Cell
  102. [102] 2017 Paper Two lineages that need each other · Molecular Ecology
  103. [103] 2016 Paper Ant Genetics: Reproductive Physiology, Worker Morphology, and Behavior · Annual Review of Neuroscience
  104. [104] 2016 Paper Context-dependent expression of the foraging gene in field colonies of ants · Proceedings of the Royal Society B
  105. [105] 2016 Paper Influence of Nuclear Structure on formation of radiation-induced lethal lesions · Int. J. Radiation Biology
  106. [106] 2015 Paper Commentary: Portuguese crypto-Jews: the genetic heritage of a complex history · Frontiers in Genetics
  107. [107] 2015 Paper Could Ehrlichial Infection Cause Some Changes Associated with Leukemia? · Medical Hypotheses
  108. [108] 2015 Paper Large Scale Coding Sequence Change Underlies the Evolution of Post-developmental Novelty in Honey Bees · Molecular Biology & Evolution
  109. [109] 2026 Paper Ento-Linguistics: Language, Ambiguity, and Scientific Communication in Entomology · Zenodo
  110. [110] 2026 Paper A Living Meta-Analysis Architecture for Active Inference: Assertion Extraction, Nanopublications, and Hypothesis Scoring · Active Inference Journal
  111. [111] 2026 Paper Dynamic Attentional Agents in Focused Attention Meditation: Hierarchical Computational Modeling of Expert-Novice Differences · CSCIS vol 2857, Springer
  112. [112] 2026 Paper Compositional Approaches to Linguistic Case for Cognitive Modeling · Active Inference Journal
  113. [113] 2026 Paper Towards Lean 4 Formalization of the Free Energy Principle: AI-Driven Theorem Sketching and Verification for Active Inference and Bayesian Mechanics · Active Inference Journal
  114. [114] 2020 Paper The Facilitator's Catechism · Zenodo
  115. [115] 2026 Paper The Architecture of False Gods: William Blake, Professor Jiang, and the Active Inference Corrective to Single Vision · Zenodo
  116. [116] 2026 Paper Crescent City in Living Waves: Space, Time, People, and Minds on the Southern Cascadian Coast · Zenodo
  117. [117] 2026 Book Introduction to Biology: A Generative Approach · Zenodo
  118. [119] 2026 Paper Policy Entanglement in Active Inference · Zenodo
  119. [120] 2026 Paper Bounded AutoResearch for a Tiny Reproducible Machine-Learning Task · Zenodo
  120. [121] 2026 Paper Convergence Analysis of Gradient Descent Optimization · Zenodo
  121. [122] 2026 Paper Editorial Quality at Scale: A Reproducible Prose-Review Pipeline · Zenodo
  122. [123] 2026 Paper A template/ approach to Reproducible Generative Research · Zenodo
  123. [124] 2026 Paper Active Inference Multi-Track Exemplar · Zenodo
  124. [125] 2026 Paper BeeStack: An Evidence-Typed Scaffold for Whole-Colony Honeybee Simulation · Zenodo
  125. [126] 2026 Paper When do bugs see (infra)red? · Zenodo
  126. [127] 2026 Paper Self-Improvement Agent Harness: A Deterministic SIA Exemplar · Zenodo
  127. [128] 2025 Presentation Biofirm Development with First Principles First and the Active Inference Institute at the Applied Active Inference Symposium 2024 · Zenodo
  128. [129] 2025 Paper Con-cat-enate: emulation of Cat Hippocampus · Zenodo
  129. [130] 2025 Paper Graphspeak: of language and handshake · Zenodo
  130. [131] 2025 Paper BevCyc - posit on primitive drivers of creatures · Zenodo
  131. [132] 2025 Paper Beacons - pre emulation of social cortex · Zenodo
  132. [133] 2025 Paper Con-cat-enate: pilot overview · Zenodo
  133. [134] 2024 Paper Push and Pull: A priming sequence · Zenodo
  134. [135] 2023 Paper A Natural AI Based on The Science of Computational Physics, Biology and Neuroscience: Policy and Societal Significance · Zenodo
  135. [136] 2023 Paper ATLAS: A Question Oriented Approach to the Use of Pattern Languages in Knowledge Management · Zenodo
  136. [137] 2023 Paper Transcript of Active Inference GuestStream 049.1: "Clickbait, consciousness science, and responsible journalism" · Zenodo
  137. [138] 2023 Paper Modern Nostr Index Card-based Knowledge Engineering · Zenodo
  138. [139] 2023 Paper Slides for Iris · Zenodo
  139. [140] 2022 Paper Canonical neural networks perform active inference · Zenodo
  140. [141] 2022 Paper Interoception as modeling, allostasis as control · Zenodo
  141. [142] 2022 Paper Transcript of: Mark Solms, "Consciousness as Precision Optimization: Some Physiological and Philosophical Considerations", ActInf GuestStream #016 · Zenodo
  142. [143] 2022 Paper A Worked Example of the Bayesian Mechanics of Classical Objects · Zenodo
  143. [144] 2022 Paper Transcript of discussions on: "Communication as Socially Extended Active Inference: An Ecological Approach to Communicative Behavior" · Zenodo
  144. [145] 2022 Paper Tracking Public Sensemaking through Rhetorical Annotation of Image Memes · Zenodo
  145. [146] 2021 Paper Transcript of: Karl Friston, 1st Applied Active Inference Symposium, Active Inference Lab, June 21, 2021 · Zenodo
  146. [147] 2021 Paper Collaborative Writing for Catechism-Based Teams · Zenodo
  147. [148] 2020 Paper Reimagining Maps · Zenodo
  148. [149] 2020 Paper Infinite Games for Infinite Teams · Zenodo
  149. [150] 2026 Paper The Music Never Stopped: A Grateful Data Compendium with a Category-Theoretic Interpretation · Zenodo
  150. [151] 2026 Paper A Deterministic Testbed for Self-Organizing Agent-Team Coordination · Zenodo
  151. [152] 2026 Paper Recovering LLM-Persona Accuracies from Unlabeled Votes · Zenodo
  152. [153] 2026 Paper The Triplicate: A Data-Driven Large-Format Newspaper Layout Engine · Zenodo
  153. [154] 2026 Book The Template Textbook · Zenodo
  154. [155] 2016 Paper Lessons from the colony · Science
  155. [156] 2016 Paper Full speed ahead to the City on the Hill · Science
  156. [157] 2021 Paper Disinforge · Science
  157. [158] 2021 Paper Defining events: 2020 in hindsight · Science
  158. [159] 2022 Paper Active Blockference: cadCAD with Active Inference for Cognitive Systems Modeling · International Workshop on Active Inference
  159. [160] 2024 Paper From Neuronal Packets to Thoughtseeds: A Hierarchical Model of Embodied Cognition in the Global Workspace · arXiv
  160. [161] 2021 Paper Knowledge Management Archipelago · Zenodo
  161. [162] 2024 Paper Comments Submitted by BlockScience, UW APL IRSIRI, and the Cognitive Security and Education Forum · Zenodo
  162. [163] 2017 Paper Osteopathy and the Variable Variability of Health · The Cranial Letter 70(4)
  163. [164] 2016 Paper Cells, Mechanobiology, and Osteopathy · The Cranial Letter 69(1)
  164. [165] 2026 Paper iTrace: verification-first webcam eye-movement analysis · Zenodo
  165. [166] 2026 Paper DemoCreate: Declarative Audio-Visual Demo Generation for Software · Zenodo
  166. [167] 2026 Paper ENTO: an ENcrypted, Typed, Omnitrack container format for multimodal research data · Zenodo
  167. [168] 2026 Paper GeneralizedNotationNotation (GNN) · Zenodo
  168. [169] 2026 Paper COGANT: Deterministic Codebase-to-GNN Translation · Zenodo
  169. [170] 2026 Paper AGEINT: Agentic Intelligence · Zenodo
  170. [171] 2026 Paper On-Policy Distillation as Active Inference in Finite Variational Models · Zenodo
  171. [172] 2026 Paper Template Madlib: Deterministic Token Injection for Conditional IMRAD Manuscripts · Zenodo
  172. [173] 2026 Paper California Public Records: A Technical and Legal Reference for the Post-AB 473 Era · Zenodo
  173. [174] 2026 Paper CogSecSkills: Multiharness Cognitive Security Skill Library · Zenodo
  174. [175] 2026 Paper Realizing Emptiness: Operational Surrogates for No-Self-Evidence, QRF Opacification, and Bayesian Model Reduction · Zenodo
  175. [176] 2026 Paper A Living Meta-Analysis of the Modafinil Literature · Zenodo
  176. [177] 2026 Paper Refinement of Gold: A Metallurgical Analogy for Scientific Manuscript Composition · Zenodo
  177. [178] 2026 Paper AlphaCOGANT: Recursive Corporate Self-Improvement as Active Inference · Zenodo
  178. [179] 2026 Paper Mapping William Blake's Works: Evidence ledgers, source provenance, text-image diagnostics, and rights-bounded release controls · Zenodo
  179. [180] 2026 Paper Sortition Upstream of NTQR · Zenodo
  180. [181] 2026 Paper Exploratory Data Analysis: A Reproducible Notebook Template · Zenodo
  181. [182] 2026 Paper A Domain Language for Specifying Controlled Methods · Zenodo
  182. [183] 2026 Paper Entomological Law: A Field Map of Insects as Evidence, Threat, Property, Product, Patient, and Weapon · Zenodo
  183. [184] 2026 Paper The Shape Between: A Full-Page Illustrated Storybook Template · Zenodo
  184. [185] 2026 Paper Autopoietic Project Generation · Zenodo
  185. [186] 2026 Paper template_pitch_deck: Reproducible, Validated Pitch-Deck Generation · Zenodo
  186. [187] 2026 Paper Reproducible Literature Synthesis with infrastructure/search and infrastructure/reference · Zenodo
  187. [188] 2026 Paper Registered Report Template: Preregistration, Deviations, and Claim Boundaries · Zenodo
  188. [189] 2026 Paper Redacted Report Template: Disclosure Control and Release Audit · Zenodo
  189. [190] 2026 Paper Pools, Rules, and Tools: A Template-Integrated Resource Architecture · Zenodo
  190. [191] 2026 Paper Illegal States, Mostly Unrepresentable · Zenodo
  191. [192] 2026 Paper Data Descriptor Template: Schema, Provenance, and Release Readiness · Zenodo
  192. [193] 2026 Paper A template/ approach to Reproducible Generative Research: Architecture and Ergonomics from Configuration through Publication · Zenodo
  193. [194] 2026 Paper Prior Cognitive Art · Zenodo
  194. [195] 2026 Paper Active FractalRabbit: A Synthetic Benchmark for Belief Filtering Under Sparse Waypoint Observations · Zenodo
  195. [196] 2026 Paper Fourfold Vision: William Blake, Buckminster Fuller, and the Geometry of Omnirational Seeing · Zenodo

Software (96)

Conferences, Posters, Seminars, and Workshops (17)

  2. 2025

    Systems Processes, Active Inference, and Beyond

    Enduring Patterns, Emerging Futures: Celebrating Dr. Len Troncale

    Talk

    Zenodo presentation

  3. 2024

    ...And Eternity in an hour of Systems Science Education and Knowledge Engineering

    ISSS 2024

    Workshop

    ISSS

  6. 2022

    Tissue-specific gene expression meta-analysis in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

    Entomology Society of America, Pacific Branch

    Talk

    Entomological Society of America

  7. 2021

    Thinking like a State: Active inference and the deep roots of complex societies

    Cognitio 2021

    Talk

    Avel Guenin-Carlut, Daniel Friedman, and Virginia Bleu Knight.

    Cognitio

  8. 2021

    Introducing Active Inference as An Integrative Principle in The Study of Collective Intelligence

    ACM-CI 2021

    Talk

    Avel Guenin-Carlut and Daniel Friedman.

    ACM Collective Intelligence

  9. 2020

    Active Inference for Communicating Systems

    IIBM, Chile

    Talk

    Invited online seminar.

    IIBM

  10. 2019

    Invited seminar, Department of Animal Behavior, University of California, Davis

    Essig Brunch Seminar Series

    Talk

    UC Davis Entomology

  12. 2018

    Invited seminar, University of California, Berkeley

    Essig Entomology Brunch

    Talk

    Essig Museum

  14. 2017

    Quantitative LC-MS/MS analysis of dopamine in single ant brain samples

    ASMS 2017

    Poster

    KM Krasinska, DA Friedman, DM Gordon, AS Chien.

    ASMS Annual Conference

  15. 2015

    Transcriptomic analysis of the regulation of foraging in harvester ants

    Biology and Genetics of Social Insects, CSHL 2015

    Poster

    DA Friedman, A Pilko, DM Gordon.

    Cold Spring Harbor Meetings

  16. 2014

    Evolution of sex comb enhancers in the HOX gene Scr

    Drosophila Research Conference 2014

    Poster

    DA Friedman, T Orenic, C McCullough, E Eksi, OY Barmina, A Kopp.

    GSA Drosophila Conference

  17. 2012

    Visualizing the Integration of Sensory Neurons into a Sex-Specific Central Nervous System Circuit in 3-D

    UC Davis Undergraduate Research Conference

    Talk

    DA Friedman.

    UC Davis Undergraduate Research Center

Science Engagement, Outreach, Quotes, and Articles (29)

  1. 2026

    S3E10 The FEP: A Tool for Understanding and Modelling Complex Systems

    Video conversation on another channel

    BathmikeC podcast

  2. 2025

    (DIA 1/SESSAO 1) Lancamento do Livro: As Colonias de Formigas Sao Conscientes?

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  3. 2024

    From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman

    Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  4. 2024

    Building Smarter AI: Active Inference and Nested Models

    Video conversation on another channel

    Bagaev, de Vries, Friedman, Pashea.

    YouTube

  5. 2024

    Interaction. In Search of Daniel Friedman's Deepest Value

    Math4Wisdom

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  6. 2023

    Active Inference and The Free Energy Principle with Daniel Friedman

    No Way Out podcast

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  7. 2023

    Episode 6: Daniel Friedman - Active Inference Institute - What is Active Inference?

    Denise Holt

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  8. 2022

    Artist of Curio Cards 24-26 Shares Incredible Journey through Art and Science

    Jake Gallen

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  9. 2022

    What Ant Behavior Reveals About Complexity Science with Daniel Friedman

    Making Sense of Complexity

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube YouTube episode

  10. 2022

    What is Active Inference?...with Daniel Friedman

    Inner Sense

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  11. 2022

    Great discussion with Daniel, OG Curio Card artist, cards 24, 25, 26

    ZeroG

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  12. 2022

    Daniel Friedman Interview - Adventures in NFTs #3

    World Crypto Network

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  13. 2022

    Banging the Drum with Daniel Friedman

    Nicholas Pacheco

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  14. 2022

    KB7 Fireside: Scaling Principled Games

    Kernel

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  15. 2022

    KBCast Episode 7: Kernel Block 5 Week 6 and special guest Daniel Ari Friedman

    Active Inference Lab

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  16. 2021

    Daniel Friedman Interview - Adventures in NFTs #3

    World Crypto Network

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  17. 2020

    Interview with Monica Kang about Complexity Weekend, with co-founder Shaun Swanson and organizer JP Gonzales

    Video conversation on another channel

    YouTube

  18. 2021

    Blurb in Science magazine inventing the word disinforge

    Blurb

    Science

  19. 2021

    Complexity Weekend featured on InnovatorsBox blog, with quotes from Friedman and others

    Blurb

    InnovatorsBox

  20. 2020

    Blurb in Science magazine about rethinking time use for scientists

    Blurb

    Science

  21. 2016

    Blurb in Science magazine about what ants can teach human city planners

    Blurb

    Science

  22. 2013

    Blurb in Science magazine about time travel

    Blurb

    Science

  23. 2017

    Public lecture: Red Vic lecture series, San Francisco. History and philosophy of Art and Biology.

    Lecture

    verification

  24. 2016

    Public lecture: Red Vic lecture series, San Francisco. History and philosophy of self-organization, stigmergy, and eusocial insects.

    Lecture

    verification

  25. 2021

    Quoted in Dopamine Nation by Dr. Anna Lembke, p. 75: The world is sensory rich and causal poor.

    Quote

    Dopamine Nation

  26. 2025

    No Signal 006: Daniel Ari Friedman and Jakub Smekal || Active Inference

    Profile or Interview

    No Signal

  27. 2022

    Daniel Friedman: Drawing Decentralized Beauty From Biology

    Curio DAO

    Profile or Interview

    Curio DAO Mirror

  29. 2019

    Radio Interview, KPOO 89.5 FM in San Francisco

    Radio

    KPOO

Professional Participation, Engagement, and Service (27)

  1. 2022-2024

    ISSS — Vice-President for Communication and Systems Education on the International Society for the Systems Sciences Board.

    Board of Directors

    Vice-President for Communication and Systems Education on the International Society for the Systems Sciences Board.

    ISSS

  2. 2021-2023

    JoVE — Co-editor, Field and Laboratory Methods for Modern Entomology.

    Academia

    Co-editor, Field and Laboratory Methods for Modern Entomology.

    JoVE methods collection

  3. 2021

    Cybernetics Society — Member (MCybS), Cybernetics Society.

    Membership

    Member (MCybS), Cybernetics Society.

    Cybernetics Society

  4. 2020-ongoing

    IPA — Information Professional Association.

    Membership

    Information Professional Association.

    IPA

  5. 2020-ongoing

    Active Inference Institute — Active Inference Institute co-founder.

    Community

    Active Inference Institute co-founder.

    Active Inference Institute

  6. 2020-2023

    Davis Complexity Group — Davis Complexity Group.

    Community

    Davis Complexity Group.

    verification

  7. 2019-2024

    Complexity Adventures — Complexity Adventures co-founder.

    Community

    Complexity Adventures co-founder.

    Complexity Adventures

  8. 2018-2021

    ALIUS — ALIUS Research Group contributor, editor, and co-organizer.

    Membership

    ALIUS Research Group contributor, editor, and co-organizer.

    ALIUS Research Group

  9. 2018-2019

    Wonderfest — Wonderfest Science Envoy; science outreach and community training.

    Community

    Wonderfest Science Envoy; science outreach and community training.

    Wonderfest

  11. 2017-2019

    Stanford — NeuroChoice group, Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

    Academia

    NeuroChoice group, Stanford Neurosciences Institute.

    NeuroChoice

  12. 2017-2018

    Stanford — Graduate student member of Arts Committee for Stanford Biology department.

    Membership

    Graduate student member of Arts Committee for Stanford Biology department.

    Stanford Biology

  13. 2016-2019

    Stanford Complexity Group — Stanford Complexity Group.

    Community

    Stanford Complexity Group.

    Stanford verification

  14. 2016

    Stanford — Science Teaching Through Art (STAR) outreach program; poster presentations and conversations about ants at local middle and high schools.

    Community

    Science Teaching Through Art (STAR) outreach program; poster presentations and conversations about ants at local middle and high schools.

    Stanford

  15. 2015

    Santa Fe Institute — Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, one-month residential program.

    Workshop

    Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, one-month residential program.

    Santa Fe Institute CSSS

  16. 2014-2018

    Gordon Lab — Five summers of ant fieldwork during PhD under Prof. Deborah Gordon at Southwestern Research Station, Arizona.

    Field work

    Five summers of ant fieldwork during PhD under Prof. Deborah Gordon at Southwestern Research Station, Arizona.

    Southwestern Research Station

  17. 2014

    Stanford — Summer field ecology class with Stanford Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo at Las Tuxtlas tropical research station, Mexico.

    Field work

    Summer field ecology class with Stanford Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo at Las Tuxtlas tropical research station, Mexico.

    Los Tuxtlas Biological Station

  18. 2014

    NIMBioS — Summer workshop on Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics at NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

    Workshop

    Summer workshop on Evolutionary and Quantitative Genetics at NIMBioS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

    NIMBioS

  19. 2014

    Science — Drosophila work with Dr. Michael Lang in Arizona.

    Field work

    Drosophila work with Dr. Michael Lang in Arizona.

    Drosophila Evolution

  20. 2014-ongoing

    Science — Invited peer reviewer for 1-10 articles per year across different journals.

    Academia

    Invited peer reviewer for 1-10 articles per year across different journals.

    Science

  21. 2014-2023

    IUSSI — International Union for the Study of Social Insects.

    Membership

    International Union for the Study of Social Insects.

    IUSSI

  22. 2014-2017

    Stanford — Stanford Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics outreach programs, including teaching genetics in local middle schools and hosting high school students at Stanford.

    Community

    Stanford Center for Evolutionary and Human Genomics outreach programs, including teaching genetics in local middle schools and hosting high school students at Stanford.

    Stanford Center for Evolution and Human Genomics

  23. 2014-2017

    Stanford — Stanford Bio Core Explorations hands-on lecture/workshop for undergraduates: Art and Biology.

    Community

    Stanford Bio Core Explorations hands-on lecture/workshop for undergraduates: Art and Biology.

    Stanford Biology

  24. 2013

    UC Davis — Science mentoring at Woodland High School.

    Community

    Science mentoring at Woodland High School.

    Woodland High School

  25. 2012

    UC Davis — Drums and percussion for UC Davis production of RENT.

    Community

    Drums and percussion for UC Davis production of RENT.

    UC Davis

  26. 2012-2013

    UC Davis — Volunteer in emergency room at hospital in Sacramento, four hours per week for six months.

    Community

    Volunteer in emergency room at hospital in Sacramento, four hours per week for six months.

    UC Davis Health

  27. 2011-2014

    UC Davis — Chess Club at UC Davis President (2012-2014), organizing free outdoor chess at the farmer's market twice weekly for two years.

    Community

    Chess Club at UC Davis President (2012-2014), organizing free outdoor chess at the farmer's market twice weekly for two years.

    UC Davis Campus Recreation

Art Portfolio and Uses (14)

  1. All

    Art portfolio

    Posting drawings to an online portfolio since 2009.

    Flickr

  2. 2021

    Curio Cards

    A full Curio Cards set sold at Christie's on October 1, 2021 for 393 ETH, approximately $1.2 million.

    Christie's Curio Cards lot

  3. 2021

    Curio Cards

    Curio Cards collection stored in the Arctic World Archive with art and provenance data intended for long-duration preservation.

    Top Dog Beach Club

  4. 2021

    Curio Cards

    Public auction and market history for Curio Cards includes major 2021 sales; verify venue-specific claims before reusing exact auction-house wording.

    Sotheby's Curio Cards

  5. 2019

    Art used

    Art used in the eBook Rebelling with Care: Exploring open technologies for commoning healthcare.

    ResearchGate

  8. 2018

    Art used

    Art used in Medium post by Lorena Cabeza, August 23, 2018.

    Medium

  11. 2017

    Art used

    Art used in Bas Haring blog.

    Me Judice

  14. 2016

    Art used

    Art featured by Stanford Art of Neuroscience competition.

    Stanford Scope