Quantitative Promise Theory: Intentionality and Inference in Autonomous Agents - Mark Burgess

A brief overview of Promise Theory and how it may relate to Free Energy/Active Inference. Promise Theory grew out of a desire to understand autonomous cooperation, and has existed for 20 years. It is widely used in technology, and has been applied to sociology, biology, and physical problems. Mark Burgess is a British theoretical physicist, turned multi-disciplinary Computer Scientist. He was Professor of Networks and Systems at Oslo University College, now an independent researcher and consultant at ChiTek-i, based in Oslo, Norway. (see http://markburgess.org)