Epistemic Affordance

Opportunity for information gain presented by a particular course of action.

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Affordances
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Gibson's ecological psychology concept: relationships between organism abilities and environmental features; central to research question.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Affordances are relationships between the abilities of organisms and features of the environment.claim0.818
Abstract Affordanceconcept0.805
Software affordances where actions have immediate effects in an abstract world rather than direct physical consequences.
Epistemic Valueconcept0.804
Expected information gain about hidden states; drives curiosity and novelty-seeking; mutual information term in expected free energy.
Environmental affordancesconcept0.803
Affordances offered by the physical environment, e.g., altered by lucid dreaming.
Social affordancesconcept0.800
The range of possible social actions and interactions available to an individual.
Epistemic Behaviorconcept0.798
World-disclosing behavior that resolves uncertainty; driven by epistemic value and novelty components of expected free energy
Epistemic Foragingconcept0.792
Behavior driven by epistemic value; resolving uncertainty through action selection.
Epistemic Depthframework0.785
Active inference theory of consciousness where a hyper-generative-model recursively monitors all inference layers; proposed as mechanism for contemplative wisdom in AI