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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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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 ...
Martin Biehl +2 more
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A free energy principle for the brain [PDF]
Journal of Physiology-Paris, 2006 By formulating Helmholtz's ideas about perception, in terms of modern-day theories, one arrives at a model of perceptual inference and learning that can explain a remarkable range of neurobiological facts: using constructs from statistical physics, the problems of inferring the causes of sensory input and learning the causal structure of their ...
Karl, Friston +2 more
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Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Explained by the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 According to the free energy principle, all sentient beings strive to minimize surprise or, in other words, an information-theoretical quantity called variational free energy. Consequently, psychosocial “stress” can be redefined as a state of “heightened
Achim Peters +4 more
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Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle. [PDF]
Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 2021 The aim of this paper is to leverage the free-energy principle and its corollary process theory, active inference, to develop a generic, generalizable model of the representational capacities of living creatures; that is, a theory of phenotypic representation.
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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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Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Scientific interest in the brain and body interactions has been surging in recent years. One fundamental yet underexplored aspect of brain and body interactions is the link between the respiratory and the nervous systems.
Asena Boyadzhieva +2 more
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A Psychovisual Quality Metric in Free-Energy Principle
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2012 In this paper, we propose a new psychovisual quality metric of images based on recent developments in brain theory and neuroscience, particularly the free-energy principle. The perception and understanding of an image is modeled as an active inference process, in which the brain tries to explain the scene using an internal generative model.
Lin, Weisi +4 more
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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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