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claim:valence-the-positive-or-negative-quality-of-experience-just-is-goal-relative-prediction-errorValence, the positive or negative quality of experience, just is goal-relative prediction error
Core identity claim distinguishing this account from mere correlation views
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Papers (1)
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- Why Learning Requires Feelingintroduces
Findings (5)
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- Large-scale replication supporting the claim that subjective well-being maps onto prediction error structure
- The foundational finding linking dopaminergic activity to formal RL prediction error
- The strongest demonstration that goal-state alone determines valence of a fixed sensory input
- Antecedent proposal within the FEP framework that shares the signed-error identification with the present thesis
- Evidence that phenomenal mood state tracks RL-style prediction error aggregates
Hypotheses (1)
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- Third falsifiable prediction: any dissociation between inverted learning and inverted valence report would disconfirm the identity
Concepts (1)
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- Methodological principle applied to favor identity over correlation between signed evaluation and felt valence
Claims (1)
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- The causal-functional argument that directionality and feeling are not two things but one
Methods (1)
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- Placebo Analgesia ParadigmsupportsExperimental paradigm holding sensory input constant while manipulating expectations; provides key evidence
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- The positive or negative quality of experience, identified in this paper with goal-relative prediction error
- Positively or negatively valenced conscious experiences; widely regarded as sufficient for moral patienthood.
- If induced states carry valence, the stakes of mass deployment of conscious-like systems multiply morally
- The specific claim that interference between parallel paths uses valence to reduce dimensionality.
- Central ethical research question for CIMC's welfare agenda
- Redefines value in probabilistic terms, linking to surprise minimisation.
- Novel claim by Antra, linking valence to computational efficiency in transformers.
- Redefinition of value in probabilistic terms.