“…Friston et al, 2016), which is understood to resolve theoretical and pragmatic questions regarding cognitive representations (Constant et al, 2021), action control (Hipólito, Baltieri, et al, 2021), agency (Clark, 2020), or phenomenology (Ramstead, Hesp, Sandved-Smith, et al, 2021). It does so by offering a multiscale model of how agents engage with their world (Bruineberg & Rietveld, 2014), accounting for the entanglement of embodiment, ecological activity, enculturation, niche construction and phenomenology in the dynamics underlying cognition (Constant et al, 2019(Constant et al, , 2020Nave et al, 2020;Ramstead, Hesp, Sandved-Smith, et al, 2021). It therefore affords a natural model of collective cognition as the participative construction of cognitive landscapes which shape (and are shaped by) the engagement of agents, generating the alignment (or lack thereof) in cultural norms, behavior, etc.…”