Some Interesting Observations on the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 Biehl et al. (2021) present some interesting observations on an early formulation of the free energy principle. We use these observations to scaffold a discussion of the technical arguments that underwrite the free energy principle.
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A Technical Critique of Some Parts of the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 We summarize the original formulation of the free energy principle and highlight some technical issues. We discuss how these issues affect related results involving generalised coordinates and, where appropriate, mention consequences for and reveal, up ...
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The Free Energy Principle for Perception and Action: A Deep Learning Perspective [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 The free energy principle, and its corollary active inference, constitute a bio-inspired theory that assumes biological agents act to remain in a restricted set of preferred states of the world, i.e., they minimize their free energy. Under this principle,
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Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to assess whether the construct of neural representations plays an explanatory role under the variational free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference; and (2) if so, to assess which ...
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Psychoanalytic psychotherapies and the free energy principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 In this paper I propose a model of the fundamental components of psychoanalytic psychotherapies that I try to explicate with contemporary theories of the Bayesian brain and the Free Energy Principle (FEP).
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Connecting the free energy principle with quantum cognition [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 It appears that the free energy minimization principle conflicts with quantum cognition since the former adheres to a restricted view based on experience while the latter allows deviations from such a restricted view.
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Learned uncertainty: The free energy principle in anxiety [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Generalized anxiety disorder is among the world’s most prevalent psychiatric disorders and often manifests as persistent and difficult to control apprehension.
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Models of the Translation Process and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 Translation process research (TPR) has generated a large number of models that aim at explaining human translation processes. In this paper, I suggest an extension of the monitor model to incorporate aspects of relevance theory (RT) and to adopt the free
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Applying the Free Energy Principle to Complex Adaptive Systems [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 The free energy principle (FEP) is a formulation of the adaptive, belief-driven behaviour of self-organizing systems that gained prominence in the early 2000s as a unified model of the brain [...]
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Distributionally robust free energy principle for decision-making [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsDespite their groundbreaking performance, autonomous agents can misbehave when training and environmental conditions become inconsistent, with minor mismatches leading to undesirable behaviors or even catastrophic failures.
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