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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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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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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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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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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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Unifying treatments for Depression: An application of the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Major Depressive Disorder is a debilitating and increasingly prevalent psychiatric condition(1,2). At present, its primary treatments are antidepressant medications and psychotherapy.
Adam Mourad Chekroud +1 more
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How particular is the physics of the free energy principle? [PDF]
Physics of Life Reviews, 2022 The free energy principle (FEP) states that any dynamical system can be interpreted as performing Bayesian inference upon its surrounding environment. In this work, we examine in depth the assumptions required to derive the FEP in the simplest possible set of systems -- weakly-coupled non-equilibrium linear stochastic systems. Specifically, we explore (
MIGUEL Aguilera +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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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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