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XSCAPE Project (ERC-2020-SyG 951631) @xscape-project.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

A part of our team is now in Lima (Peru) for an intense formative and experimental couple of weeks. Besides a workshop and lectures, they will implement two experiments that we will later replicate in Santiago. Our first big trip abroad!

Felipe offering a lecture at the Minsitry of Culture in Lima, Perú. In the background an image of a megalithic landscape in Galicia.

The set-up for the experiments at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology of the San Marcos University. There are two sets: one for screen and one for actual artefacts.

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XSCAPE Project (ERC-2020-SyG 951631) @xscape-project.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Following with the news from our Sussex team, a new article has been accepted! "Active Inference Goes to School" - Laura will be in a podcast next week presenting it, and you can read the pre-print and some notes here: balazskegl.substack.com/p/active-inf...

Human learning essentially involves embodied interactions with the material world. But our worlds now include increasing numbers of powerful and (apparently) disembodied generative AIs. In what follows we ask how best to understand these new (somewhat “alien”) resources and how to incorporate them in our educational practices. We focus on methodologies that encourage exploration and embodied interactions with ‘prepared’ material environments, such as the carefully organised settings of Montessori education. Using the Active Inference Framework, we approach our questions by thinking about human learning as epistemic foraging and prediction error minimization. We end by arguing that generative AIs should figure naturally as new elements in prepared learning environments by facilitating sequences of precise prediction error enabling trajectories of self-correction. In these ways we anticipate new synergies between disembodied and embodied forms of intelligence.

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XSCAPE Project (ERC-2020-SyG 951631) @xscape-project.bsky.social · 19/01/2024

This year we are hosting three sessions at the #eaa2024 and will have some more surprises. Have a look at our calls and come join us in Rome! @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @incipitcsic.bsky.social @material-minds.bsky.social

Mindreading materialities. Where theory and method meet

From material landscapes to cognitive landscapes

Take a walk on the right side. Archaeology of gesture and bodily movement.

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XSCAPE Project (ERC-2020-SyG 951631) @xscape-project.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

"Material Minds: Exploring the Interactions between Predictive Brains, Cultural Artefacts, and Embodied Visual Search (XSCAPE)", is the title of our Synergy Grant (ERC-2020-SyG 951631), focusing on materiality, mainly archaeological, and human cognition.

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