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A Free Energy Principle for Biological Systems [PDF]
Entropy, 2012 This paper describes a free energy principle that tries to explain the ability of biological systems to resist a natural tendency to disorder. It appeals to circular causality of the sort found in synergetic formulations of self-organization (e.g., the ...
Friston Karl
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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.
H. T. McGovern +6 more
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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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Forced Friends: Why the Free Energy Principle Is Not the New Hamilton’s Principle [PDF]
EntropyThe claim that the free energy principle is somehow related to Hamilton’s principle in statistical mechanics is ubiquitous throughout the subject literature. However, the exact nature of this relationship remains unclear.
Bartosz Michał Radomski +1 more
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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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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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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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An Investigation of the Free Energy Principle for Emotion Recognition [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020 This paper offers a prospectus of what might be achievable in the development of emotional recognition devices. It provides a conceptual overview of the free energy principle; including Markov blankets, active inference, and—in particular—a discussion of
Daphne Demekas +2 more
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This article applies the free energy principle to the hard problem of consciousness. After clarifying some philosophical issues concerning functionalism, it identifies the elemental form of consciousness as affect and locates its physiological mechanism (
Mark Solms
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Teleosemantics and the free energy principle [PDF]
Biology & Philosophy, 2022 The free energy principle is notoriously difficult to understand. In this paper, we relate the principle to a framework that philosophers of biology are familiar with: Ruth Millikan’s teleosemantics.
Stephen Francis Mann +6 more
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