Emotional valence and the free-energy principle. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2013 The free-energy principle has recently been proposed as a unified Bayesian account of perception, learning and action. Despite the inextricable link between emotion and cognition, emotion has not yet been formulated under this framework.
Mateus Joffily, Giorgio Coricelli
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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 [...]
Paul B. Badcock +3 more
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Minimal Self-Models and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 The term "minimal phenomenal selfhood" describes the basic, pre-reflective experience of being a self (Blanke & Metzinger, 2009). Theoretical accounts of the minimal self have long recognized the importance and the ambivalence of the body ...
Jakub eLimanowski +3 more
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Bayesian Mechanics of Synaptic Learning Under the Free-Energy Principle [PDF]
EntropyThe brain is a biological system comprising nerve cells and orchestrates its embodied agent’s perception, behavior, and learning in dynamic environments.
Chang Sub Kim
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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 ...
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead +2 more
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The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 Biological agents can act in ways that express a sensitivity to context-dependent relevance. So far it has proven difficult to engineer this capacity for context-dependent sensitivity to relevance in artificial agents. We give this problem the label the “
Julian Kiverstein +3 more
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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.
Allahkaram Shafiei +3 more
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Improving the Minimum Free Energy Principle to the Maximum Information Efficiency Principle [PDF]
EntropyFriston proposed the Minimum Free Energy Principle (FEP) based on the Variational Bayesian (VB) method. This principle emphasizes that the brain and behavior coordinate with the environment, promoting self-organization. However, it has a theoretical flaw,
Chenguang Lu
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Brain Entropy During Aging Through a Free Energy Principle Approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Neural complexity and brain entropy (BEN) have gained greater interest in recent years. The dynamics of neural signals and their relations with information processing continue to be investigated through different measures in a variety of noteworthy ...
Filippo Cieri +3 more
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Emergence of sensory attenuation based upon the free-energy principle [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 The brain attenuates its responses to self-produced exteroceptions (e.g., we cannot tickle ourselves). Is this phenomenon, known as sensory attenuation, enabled innately, or acquired through learning?
Hayato Idei +4 more
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