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active inference

Also known as: active inference theory

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Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Skywritings Press Jun 14, 2024 4 facts

referencePezzulo, G., Parr, T., Cisek, P., Clark, A., & Friston, K. (2024) published 'Generating meaning: Active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI' in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(2), 97–112.

claimThe 'free energy principle' provides an account of sentience in terms of active inference, where physics studies the properties that self-organising systems require to distinguish themselves from their lived world.

referenceFriston authored the work titled 'Active inference and artificial curiosity,' which discusses the mechanisms of active inference and artificial curiosity.

claimKarl Friston's primary contribution to theoretical neurobiology is the free-energy principle for action and perception (active inference), and he currently researches models of functional integration in the human brain and the principles underlying neuronal interactions.

Classification Schemes of Altered States of Consciousness - ORBi orbi.uliege.be ORBi 2 facts

referenceVilas et al. published 'Active inference as a computational framework for consciousness' in the Review of Philosophy and Psychology in 2022.

referenceBrown et al. published 'Active inference, sensory attenuation and illusions' in Cognitive Processing in 2013.

What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved quantamagazine.org Quanta Magazine Aug 24, 2023 1 fact

claimTheories of consciousness include front-of-the-brain concepts like Global Neuronal Workspace Theory (GNWT), higher-order theories (HOTs), and active inference theory, as well as back-of-the-brain concepts like Integrated Information Theory (IIT), first-order theories, and localist theories.

Protocol for testing global neuronal workspace and integrated ... journals.plos.org PLOS ONE 1 fact

referenceWhyte CJ and Smith R authored 'The predictive global neuronal workspace: A formal active inference model of visual consciousness', published in Progress in Neurobiology in 2021, volume 199, article 101918.

Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 1 fact

referenceBrown, Friston, and Bestmann (2011) explored the relationship between active inference, attention, and motor preparation.

Theories and Methods of Consciousness biomedres.us Paul C Mocombe · Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research Jan 29, 2024 1 fact

referenceAdam Safron proposed the Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of consciousness in 2020, which combines Integrated Information Theory, Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, the Free Energy Principle, and the Active Inference framework to address the hard problem of consciousness and agentic causation.