Philosophies, 2021 A weak version of the life-mind continuity thesis entails that every living system also has a basic mind (with a non-representational form of intentionality).
Wanja Wiese, Karl J. Friston
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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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Reinforcement learning or active inference? [PDF]
, 2009 This paper questions the need for reinforcement learning or control theory when optimising behaviour. We show that it is fairly simple to teach an agent complicated and adaptive behaviours using a free-energy formulation of perception.
Friston, K. +17 more
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The Energy Homeostasis Principle: A Naturalistic Approach to Explain the Emergence of Behavior
Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022 It is still elusive to explain the emergence of behavior and understanding based on its neural mechanisms. One renowned proposal is the Free Energy Principle (FEP), which uses an information-theoretic framework derived from thermodynamic considerations ...
Sergio Vicencio-Jimenez +3 more
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First principles in the life sciences: the free-energy principle, organicism, and mechanism [PDF]
, 2021 The free-energy principle states that all systems that minimize their free energy resist a tendency to physical disintegration. Originally proposed to account for perception, learning, and action, the free-energy principle has been applied to the ...
Colombo, Matteo +3 more
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Reinforced Imitation Learning by Free Energy Principle
CoRR, 2021 Reinforcement Learning (RL) requires a large amount of exploration especially in sparse-reward settings. Imitation Learning (IL) can learn from expert demonstrations without exploration, but it never exceeds the expert's performance and is also vulnerable to distributional shift between demonstration and execution.
Ryoya Ogishima +2 more
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Action and behavior: a free-energy formulation [PDF]
, 2010 We have previously tried to explain perceptual inference and learning under a free-energy principle that pursues Helmholtz’s agenda to understand the brain in terms of energy minimization. It is fairly easy to show that making inferences about the causes
Friston, K. +5 more
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How Not to Argue about the Compatibility of Predictive Processing and 4E Cognition [PDF]
Organon F, 2021 In theories of cognition, 4E approaches to cognition are seen to refrain from employing robust representations in contrast to Predictive Process, where such posits are utilized extensively.
Yavuz Recep Başoğlu
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Reclaiming saliency: Rhythmic precision-modulated action and perception
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 Computational models of visual attention in artificial intelligence and robotics have been inspired by the concept of a saliency map. These models account for the mutual information between the (current) visual information and its estimated causes ...
Ajith Anil Meera +5 more
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Calculation of the Intrinsic Solvation Free Energy Profile of an Ionic Penetrant Across a Liquid–Liquid Interface with Computer Simulations [PDF]
, 2013 We introduce the novel concept of an intrinsic free energy profile, allowing one to remove the artificial smearing caused by thermal capillary waves, which renders difficulties for the calculation of free energy profiles across fluid interfaces in ...
D. S. Cordeiro, M. Natalia +13 more
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