Overview
This Stream: 0. What might Blake have to do with any of this? 1. A view on Blake’s view on Art 2. A view on Blake’s view on Math 3. A view on Blake’s view on Active Inference
William Blakemathematicsartprophetic visiongeometric structuresActive Inference
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- Proposes reading Blake's 'Four-Fold vision' as one contextualization of how Blake situates science and formality, with 'Newton's Sleep' as single vision.
- Poses, as an open question, how Blake's tetrahedral four-fold concordances could connect with the four-fold particular partition of the Free Energy Principle.
- Links Blake's 'Minute Particulars' to the particular partition, glossed as what makes an agent of every thing within a scale-free framework.
- Highlights a quoted line from a featured page of Narrative Unbound that “deep structures” are misnomers of “unstable structures”, and relates it to hierarchical depth in Active Inference generative models.
Methods
- Four-part livestream slide outline on Blake's views — The slide deck structures the stream around Blake's view on art, on math, and on Active Inference, with an open fourth section.
- Curated quotations and secondary Blake scholarship — Slides juxtapose Blake quotations with cited secondary works on Blake, mathematics, science and cognition (e.g. White, Kobayashi, Lee, McGilchrist).
- ActiveInferAnts package scans of Blake's works for terms — Points to methods in the open-source ActiveInferAnts package that scan Blake's works and extract references to terms like System, Math, Science.
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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2024. MathArt Stream #8: William Blake and Active Inference. Presentation. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13711301. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13711301.
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