Active Inference Morphogenesis Simulation

Reproduces the simulations from Friston et al. 2015 - "Knowing one's place: a free-energy approach to pattern regulation".

Requirements

• macOS with Homebrew
• GNU Octave: brew install octave

Run

octave --gui run_morphogenesis.m

What it does

16 cells start at identical positions and self-assemble into a target morphology (head-body-tail) over 32 time steps using active inference (free energy minimization).

Documentation

• Architecture - Detailed flow diagram showing how the SPM12 library and custom model code interact

Notes

• spm12/spm_platform.m was patched to support Apple Silicon (arm64)
• SPM12 source: https://github.com/spm/spm12