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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2018 This work addresses the autonomous organization of biological systems. It does so by considering the boundaries of biological systems, from individual cells to Home sapiens, in terms of the presence of Markov blankets under the active inference scheme—a ...
Kirchhoff, Michael David
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Cognitive fatigue from schema rigidity and entropy externalization: a free energy principle perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCognitive fatigue is typically described as a psychobiological state that arises from intensive and/or prolonged cognitive performance and is experienced as a subjective feeling of exhaustion and lack of energy.
Souhir Ezzedini
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