{"id":398,"date":"2026-02-11T15:30:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T15:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/?page_id=398"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:46:32","slug":"sociomind","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/?page_id=398","title":{"rendered":"Sociomind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"328\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/donkarlo\/nd_sociomind_project\"><strong>Project&#8217;s Github<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This project aims to empower a flock of aerial swarms to continuously migrate together in search of energy sources (i.e., to recharge their solar batteries\u2014analogous to food) in order to continuously maintain both individual and collective homeostasis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"554\">To achieve this goal, the group must establish an organic relationship with humans and the surrounding environment, enabling bidirectional information exchange through communication, thereby benefiting both parties mutually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"905\">The methodology is grounded in <strong data-start=\"587\" data-end=\"607\">Active Inference<\/strong>, as proposed by <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Karl Friston<\/span><\/span>. According to this theory, living systems continuously act to minimize surprise by estimating and reducing a latent quantity known as free energy. In this framework, agents maintain their viability by keeping themselves within expected states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"907\" data-end=\"1301\">The project is further based on the axiom that any action\u2014whether mental or physical\u2014performed by an individual robot or by the collective inevitably incurs energetic cost and structural wear. Consequently, the ongoing responsibility of each agent, whether biological or artificial, is to minimize surprise (i.e., free energy) while compensating for energy loss and environmental perturbations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project&#8217;s Github This project aims to empower a flock of aerial swarms to continuously migrate together in search of energy sources (i.e., to recharge their solar batteries\u2014analogous to food) in order to continuously maintain both individual and collective homeostasis. To achieve this goal, the group must establish an organic relationship with humans and the surrounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":463,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/398\/revisions\/681"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noondreams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}