Figure 3.

This figure depicts the social action in Figure 2 under the active inference framework. The behaviour of social actor 2 is modelled as internal states coupled with social actor 1 as external states engaging in active inference. The understanding and construction of meanings and the engagement in model-based reasoning are depicted as the balanced influences between sensory and active states or blanket states (b). The converse is also possible: it is possible to invert the model such as that social actor 1 becomes internal states and social actor 2 becomes external states.