Overview
Slides for a session at "Enduring Patterns, Emerging Futures: Celebrating Dr. Len Troncale", an online event in September 2025 https://troncale.sched.com/ .
systems processesActive Inferencesystems sciencemetatheoryprocess philosophyanticipatory systems
Overview source: Curated paper metadata.
Methods and contributions
Read the source for the full argument, qualifications, and evidence.
Findings and contributions
- The talk presents the Free Energy Principle's Markov blankets as a formalisation of the systems process of Boundaries.
- The slides claim applied Active Inference adds computable, typable translations plus open-source education and software to the systems-processes view.
Methods
- Mapping of SoSPT systems processes onto Active Inference concepts — The slides pair Troncale-style systems processes with Active Inference counterparts, e.g. Boundaries with Markov blankets and Feedback & Cycles with predictive coding loops.
- Terminology alignment via the Active Inference Ontology — Uses the Active Inference Ontology repository to frame cross-vocabulary correspondences between systems science and Active Inference terms.
- Curated literature pointers per systems process — Each of five processes (boundaries, feedback, self-organization, flows/fields, hierarchies) is linked to specific FEP/Active Inference papers, some also to 2022 textbook figures.
Summary sources: Paper metadata and evidence · Extracted source text.
Document downloads
PDFs are hosted here; supporting sources may use pinned archives.
- 2025_SystemsProcesses.pdf PDF · 3.47 MiB · extracted-text source
Citation
Citation metadata follows the unified bibliography.
Friedman, Daniel. 2025. Systems Processes, Active Inference, and Beyond. Presentation. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17138223. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17138223.
Catalog details and resources
Related works
Ranked by recorded methods, topics, contributors and associated software, with contributor roles and domain-only matches labelled. Metadata overlap is not a citation or a scientific equivalence.