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concept:epistemic-competenceEpistemic Competence
The ability to gain relevant empirical information about the world and options.
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- The working paper itself, presenting a pluralist theory of moral standing and arguing that autonomy can ground moral standing without welfare subjectivity.
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- The innate problem-solving capacity of biological subunits at various scales.
- Learning model parameters through curious, uncertainty-reducing behavior; reducing ignorance about contingencies
- Active inference theory of consciousness where a hyper-generative-model recursively monitors all inference layers; proposed as mechanism for contemplative wisdom in AI
- World-disclosing behavior that resolves uncertainty; driven by epistemic value and novelty components of expected free energy
- Expected information gain about hidden states; drives curiosity and novelty-seeking; mutual information term in expected free energy.
- Bayes-optimal exploration driven by uncertainty minimization; natural behavior in active inference without handcrafted mechanisms.
- Behavior driven by epistemic value; resolving uncertainty through action selection.
- Opportunity for information gain presented by a particular course of action.