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The Hard Problem of Consciousness and the Free Energy Principle [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 This article applies the free energy principle to the hard problem of consciousness. After clarifying some philosophical issues concerning functionalism, it identifies the elemental form of consciousness as affect and locates its physiological mechanism (
Mark Solms
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Cognitive fatigue from schema rigidity and entropy externalization: a free energy principle perspective [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyCognitive fatigue is typically described as a psychobiological state that arises from intensive and/or prolonged cognitive performance and is experienced as a subjective feeling of exhaustion and lack of energy.
Souhir Ezzedini
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A Psychovisual Quality Metric in Free-Energy Principle
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2012 In this paper, we propose a new psychovisual quality metric of images based on recent developments in brain theory and neuroscience, particularly the free-energy principle. The perception and understanding of an image is modeled as an active inference process, in which the brain tries to explain the scene using an internal generative model.
Lin, Weisi +4 more
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The Free Energy Principle: Good Science and Questionable Philosophy in a Grand Unifying Theory [PDF]
Entropy, 2021 The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is currently one of the most promising frameworks with which to address a unified explanation of life-related phenomena.
Javier Sánchez-Cañizares
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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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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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A free-energy principle for representation learning [PDF]
Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2021 Abstract This paper employs a formal connection of machine learning with thermodynamics to characterize the quality of learned representations for transfer learning. We discuss how information-theoretic functionals such as rate, distortion and classification loss of a model lie on a convex, so-called, equilibrium surface.
Yansong Gao, Pratik Chaudhari
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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 +4 more
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Predictive coding under the free-energy principle [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2009 This paper considers prediction and perceptual categorization as an inference problem that is solved by the brain. We assume that the brain models the world as a hierarchy or cascade of dynamical systems that encode causal structure in the sensorium. Perception is equated with the optimization or inversion of these internal models, to explain sensory ...
Friston, K., Kiebel, S.
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Teleosemantics and the free energy principle
Biology & Philosophy, 2022 AbstractThe free energy principle is notoriously difficult to understand. In this paper, we relate the principle to a framework that philosophers of biology are familiar with: Ruth Millikan’s teleosemantics. We argue that: (i) systems that minimise free energy are systems with a proper function; and (ii) Karl Friston’s notion of implicit modelling can ...
Stephen Francis Mann, Ross Pain
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