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?
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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 ...
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The Free Energy Principle for Perception and Action: A Deep Learning Perspective [PDF]
Entropy, 2022 The free energy principle, and its corollary active inference, constitute a bio-inspired theory that assumes biological agents act to remain in a restricted set of preferred states of the world, i.e., they minimize their free energy. Under this principle,
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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
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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 ...
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Resurrecting Gaia: harnessing the Free Energy Principle to preserve life as we know it [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 This paper applies the Free Energy Principle (FEP) to propose that the lack of action in response to the global ecological crisis should be considered a maladaptive symptom of human activity that we refer to as biophilia deficiency syndrome. The paper is
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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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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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Turn-Taking Mechanisms in Imitative Interaction: Robotic Social Interaction Based on the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Entropy, 2023 This study explains how the leader-follower relationship and turn-taking could develop in a dyadic imitative interaction by conducting robotic simulation experiments based on the free energy principle.
Nadine Wirkuttis, Wataru Ohata, Jun Tani
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