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Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
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extracted_from(2020) · Lancelot Da Costa · Thomas Parr · Noor Sajid · Sebastijan Veselic +2
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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.
- Agents balance perception and action through variational free energy, with exploration-exploitation trade-offs emerging from expected free energy decomposition into risk and ambiguity terms.
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- Active InferencesupportsFoundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
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- The core process theory hypothesis set up in the paper.
- Definitional claim from Section 2.
- Concise statement of the free-energy principle's unification of action and perception.
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