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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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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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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Experimental validation of the free-energy principle with in vitro neural networks [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2023 Empirical applications of the free-energy principle are not straightforward because they entail a commitment to a particular process theory, especially at the cellular and synaptic levels.
Takuya Isomura +3 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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The anticipating brain is not a scientist: the free-energy principle from an ecological-enactive perspective. [PDF]
Synthese, 2018 In this paper, we argue for a theoretical separation of the free-energy principle from Helmholtzian accounts of the predictive brain. The free-energy principle is a theoretical framework capturing the imperative for biological self-organization in ...
Bruineberg J, Kiverstein J, Rietveld E.
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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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A Free Energy Principle for Biological Systems
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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Active Vision for Robot Manipulators Using the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2021 Occlusions, restricted field of view and limited resolution all constrain a robot's ability to sense its environment from a single observation. In these cases, the robot first needs to actively query multiple observations and accumulate information ...
Toon Van de Maele +4 more
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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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