Unifying treatments for Depression: An application of the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Major Depressive Disorder is a debilitating and increasingly prevalent psychiatric condition(1,2). At present, its primary treatments are antidepressant medications and psychotherapy.
Adam Mourad Chekroud +1 more
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Life, its origin, and its distribution: a perspective from the Conway-Kochen Theorem and the Free Energy Principle. [PDF]
Commun Integr BiolFields C, Levin M.
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Cultured Cortical Neurons Can Perform Blind Source Separation According to the Free-Energy Principle. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2015 Blind source separation is the computation underlying the cocktail party effect--a partygoer can distinguish a particular talker's voice from the ambient noise.
Takuya Isomura +2 more
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Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 2014 Constructivist instruction favours learning strategies that emphasize student independence (Bodner, 1986; Murphy, 1997). It suggests that limiting direct guidance and increasing constructed thinking through a student-centered approach will maximize ...
Jan-Michael Charles
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Hierarchical Recursive Organization and the Free Energy Principle: From Biological Self-Organization to the Psychoanalytic Mind. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2017 Connolly P, van Deventer V.
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An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation. [PDF]
Front Artif Intell, 2020 Safron A.
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Renormalization Group Flow and Thermodynamics of Conformal Field Theories [PDF]
, 1999 We discuss the free-energy density of bosonic and fermionic theories possessing strongly coupled critical points in D=3. We construct a stationary renormalization group trajectory which interpolates between the free massless theory of N scalars and a ...
Petkou, Anastasios C., Siopsis, George
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First principles in the life sciences: The free-energy principle, organicism, and mechanism [PDF]
, 2017 The free-energy principle claims that biological systems behave adaptively maintaining their physical integrity only if they minimize the free energy of their sensory states.
Colombo, Matteo, Wright, Cory
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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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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.
A Gillies +64 more
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