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claim:exchanges-with-the-environment-are-maintained-within-bounds-that-preserve-the-integrity-of-the-agent-through-surprise-minimizationExchanges with the environment are maintained within bounds that preserve the integrity of the agent through surprise minimization.
Links free energy minimization to homeostatic preservation of biological systems.
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- Active inference & agent ecologymembers_ofFree energy minimization, Markov blankets, trust gradients, and multi-agent rhythm/deferral frameworks
- 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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