The sticker-removal behavior induced by the self-prior corresponds to stimulus-elicited intention rather than endogenous intention, aligning with the developmental view of early intentional agency

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• Passing a sticker-bearing latent through the self-prior removes the sticker in reconstruction, confirming distribution favors sticker-free statefinding0.800
  Shows the self-prior's generative distribution rejects sticker-bearing states
• The self-prior operates as an internal criterion for distinguishing self from non-self, without external reward or explicitly computed sticker locationclaim0.797
  Central interpretive claim of the paper, supported by EFE decrease after sticker removal
• A sensory anomaly (sticker mismatch) can itself become an intrinsic drive for action under active inference, even without external rewardclaim0.794
  Core mechanism claim linking mismatch detection to behavior through EFE minimization
• Samples drawn from the trained self-prior correspond to sticker-free self in diverse posesfinding0.787
  Demonstrates the self-prior learned the sticker-free body distribution as intended
• "the self-prior can serve as an internal criterion for the mark-directed behavior observed in the mirror test, offering a computational basis for investigating the developmental origins of self-awareness"quote0.779
  Load-bearing summary of the paper's central contribution
• Sticker-removal success rate stayed near 20% in the early phase of trainingfinding0.777
  Shows learning progression from chance-level to functional behavior
• Kim et al. 2025: Emergence of goal-directed behaviors via active inference with self-prior (arXiv:2504.11075)concept0.773
  Predecessor paper introducing the self-prior concept for goal-directed behavior emergence
• The self-prior is distinct from prior intrinsic motivation approaches because it models the density of the agent's own familiar multisensory experiences rather than improving exploration efficiencyclaim0.769
  Differentiates the self-prior from existing intrinsic motivation work