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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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The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency [PDF]
Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2022 Biological agents can act in ways that express a sensitivity to context-dependent relevance. So far it has proven difficult to engineer this capacity for context-dependent sensitivity to relevance in artificial agents. We give this problem the label the “
Julian Kiverstein +3 more
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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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Minimal Self-Models and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 The term "minimal phenomenal selfhood" describes the basic, pre-reflective experience of being a self (Blanke & Metzinger, 2009). Theoretical accounts of the minimal self have long recognized the importance and the ambivalence of the body ...
Jakub eLimanowski +3 more
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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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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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A free energy principle for generic quantum systems [PDF]
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2021 The Free Energy Principle (FEP) states that under suitable conditions of weak coupling, random dynamical systems with sufficient degrees of freedom will behave so as to minimize an upper bound, formalized as a variational free energy, on surprisal (a.k.a.
Levin, Michael +8 more
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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
Caspar Montgomery +2 more
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