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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Affect-Logic, Embodiment, Synergetics, and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 This theoretical paper explores the affect-logic approach to schizophrenia in light of the general complexity theories of cognition: embodied cognition, Haken’s synergetics, and Friston’s free energy principle.
Ciompi L, Tschacher W.
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Application of the Free Energy Principle to Estimation and Control [PDF]
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 2021 Based on a generative model (GM) and beliefs over hidden states, the free energy principle (FEP) enables an agent to sense and act by minimizing a free energy bound on Bayesian surprise. Inclusion of prior beliefs in the GM about desired states leads to active inference (ActInf).
Thijs van de Laar +2 more
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The Free Energy Principle: Good Science and Questionable Philosophy in a Grand Unifying Theory. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2021 Sánchez-Cañizares J.
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How particular is the physics of the free energy principle? [PDF]
Phys Life Rev, 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 (
Aguilera M +3 more
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The free energy principle induces neuromorphic development
Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2022 Abstract We show how any finite physical system with morphological, i.e. three-dimensional embedding or shape, degrees of freedom and locally limited free energy will, under the constraints of the free energy principle, evolve over time towards a neuromorphic morphology that supports hierarchical computations in which each ‘level’ of the
Chris Fields 0001 +4 more
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The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle. [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2018 Kirchhoff M +4 more
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A Mathematical Walkthrough and Discussion of the Free Energy Principle
CoRR, 2021 30/08/21 initial upload; 02/10/21 minor maths ...
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Natural language syntax complies with the free-energy principle. [PDF]
Synthese, 2021 Natural language syntax yields an unbounded array of hierarchically structured expressions. We claim that these are used in the service of active inference in accord with the free-energy principle (FEP). While conceptual advances alongside modelling and simulation work have attempted to connect speech segmentation and linguistic communication with the ...
Murphy E, Holmes E, Friston K.
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A free energy principle for generic quantum systems
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2022 57 pgs, 6 ...
Chris Fields +3 more
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