The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

A comprehensive overview of an interdisciplinary approach to robotics that takes direct
inspiration from the developmental and learning phenomena observed in children's …

Gaze following is a key component of human social cognition. Gaze following directs
attention to areas of high information value and accelerates social, causal, and cultural …

Technoscientific ambitions for perfecting human-like machines, by advancing state-of-the-art
neuromorphic architectures and cognitive computing, may end in ironic regret without …

Abstract The Bayesian Brain Hypothesis, as formalized by the Free Energy Principal, is
ascendant in the cognitive sciences. But how does the Bayesian Brain obtain prior beliefs …

A fundamental challenge in robotics today is building robots that can learn new skills by
observing humans and imitating human actions. We propose a new Bayesian approach to …

In biomimetic engineering, we may take inspiration from the products of biological evolution:
we may instantiate biologically realistic neural architectures and algorithms in robots, or we …

Abstract Thinking Through Other Minds (TTOM) creatively situates the free energy principle
within real-life cultural processes, thereby enriching both sociocultural theories and …

Emerging cybertechnologies, such as social digibots, bend epistemological conventions of
life and culture already complicated by human and animal relationships. Virtually …