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concept:epistemic-behaviorEpistemic Behavior
World-disclosing behavior that resolves uncertainty; driven by epistemic value and novelty components of expected free energy
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- Intrinsic Motivationassociated_withThe drive to explore arising from epistemic value, independent of extrinsic reward, naturally emerging in active inference.
- Curiosityassociated_withActive sampling of novel contingencies to minimize uncertainty; formalized as novelty component of expected free energy
- Optimal Data Selectionassociated_withQuestion of how rationally agents query the world; subsumed by expected free energy minimization
- Pragmatic Behaviorassociated_withBehavior driven by prior preferences (extrinsic value); dominates when uncertainty is resolved
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- Behavior driven by epistemic value; resolving uncertainty through action selection.
- The active sampling of observations to maximize information gain and resolve uncertainty about the environment.
- Bayes-optimal exploration driven by uncertainty minimization; natural behavior in active inference without handcrafted mechanisms.
- Expected information gain about hidden states; drives curiosity and novelty-seeking; mutual information term in expected free energy.
- Learning model parameters through curious, uncertainty-reducing behavior; reducing ignorance about contingencies
- The ability to gain relevant empirical information about the world and options.
- Opportunity for information gain presented by a particular course of action.
- Inherent unreliability of biological substrate due to mutation, aging, cancer, parasites; proposed as driver of adaptive cognitive architecture.