Expected free energy scores each possible course of action in terms of its ability to reach the range of preferred states of being.

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• Table 1: Sources of Uncertainty Scored by Expected Free Energy and the Behaviors Entailedconcept0.849
  Summary table mapping uncertainty types to free energy formulations and corresponding behaviors
• The expected free energy can be unpacked in terms of risk and ambiguity.claim0.843
  A key decomposition presented in Section 7.
• Minimising expected free energy ensures preferred outcomes are realised, thereby avoiding surprise on average.claim0.841
  How expected free energy links to survival.
• The expected free energy subsumes many existing constructs in science and engineering.claim0.836
  Unifying nature of expected free energy claimed in Section 2 and 7.
• Minimising expected free energy specifies the optimal balance between goal-seeking and itinerant novelty-seeking behaviour.claim0.830
  Describes the exploitation-exploration trade-off.
• Expected free energy decomposes into risk (exploitation) and ambiguity (exploration) terms, providing optimal balance between goal-seeking and novelty-seeking.claim0.829
  Key insight into structure of decision-making; explains intrinsic motivation and curiosity.
• The most likely (i.e., best) policies minimise expected free energy.claim0.820
  Decision-making rule in active inference.
• Risk (Expected Free Energy)concept0.818
  KL divergence between predicted and preferred final states or outcomes.