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claim:the-expected-free-energy-can-be-unpacked-in-terms-of-risk-and-ambiguity

The expected free energy can be unpacked in terms of risk and ambiguity.

A key decomposition presented in Section 7.

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Active inference on discrete state-spaces: a synthesis

(2020) · Lancelot Da Costa · Thomas Parr · Noor Sajid · Sebastijan Veselic +2

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