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- Presents Active Inference 'biofirm' homeostatic agents as an approach to bioregional and regenerative finance.
- Lists features to avoid in a new economy, including commodification of nature and people and total fungibility of asset classes.
- Proposes an open-source biofirm kernel built on homeostatic, biomimetic principles such as self-organization, self-healing and self-modeling.
- Names the Free Energy Principle and Shapley Value as the basis for cooperative incentives and value allocation.
- States criteria grounding the biofirm in the scientific method, Bayesian statistics and the Markov blanket, with scale- and domain-free MRV metrics.
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- Mapping biofirm design to Ostrom's commons governance principles — The slides use Ostrom's commons design principles and social-ecological system concept as the reference framework for biofirm governance.
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John Clippinger; Pashea, Andrew; Friedman, Daniel. 2025. Biofirm Development with First Principles First and the Active Inference Institute at the Applied Active Inference Symposium 2024. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14861595. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14861595.
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