Scientific Foundation: Mindloom and Active Inference

How the Mindloom cognitive architecture maps onto Karl Friston's Active Inference and Free Energy Principle framework

Active Inference: Five Key Principles

Mindloom → Active Inference: Node by Node

Four Key Conclusions

MINDLOOM ≈ ACTIVE INFERENCE + SPEECH ONTOLOGY

Mindloom doesn't contradict Active Inference — it specifies it in the domain of speech and contact. Active Inference describes how the brain minimizes surprise. Mindloom describes what exactly is minimized, by what speech means, and at what cost to contact. This is not a competing theory — it is an applied specification.