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claim:acting-to-optimize-value-and-perception-are-two-aspects-of-exactly-the-same-principle-minimization-of-free-energyActing to optimize value and perception are two aspects of exactly the same principle: minimization of free energy.
Foundational claim unifying action and perception within single optimization framework.
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extracted_from(2008) · Karl Friston
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- Active inference & agent ecologymembers_ofFree energy minimization, Markov blankets, trust gradients, and multi-agent rhythm/deferral frameworks
- Friston's framework unifying perception, action, and learning under variational free energy minimization.
- Unifies action and perception as dual aspects of variational free energy minimization, grounding adaptive behavior in a single thermodynamic principle.
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- Free Energy Principleassociated_withsupportsA foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
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- Perceptionassociated_withEquated with inference of past, present and future hidden states via minimization of variational free energy.
- actionassociated_withChanging configuration to sample environment differently; minimizes free energy.
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