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concept:epistemic-valueEpistemic Value
Expected information gain about hidden states; drives curiosity and novelty-seeking; mutual information term in expected free energy.
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- Expected Free Energyassociated_withFree energy expected under future outcomes; guides policy selection via epistemic and extrinsic value.
- Mutual Informationassociated_withExpected mutual information between future states and outcomes; equivalent to intrinsic value.
- Epistemic ForagingsupportsBehavior driven by epistemic value; resolving uncertainty through action selection.
- Value of Informationassociated_withEconomic concept related to epistemic value in expected free energy; information needed to realize rewards
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- Value derived from information gain; comprises salience and novelty.
- Inherent unreliability of biological substrate due to mutation, aging, cancer, parasites; proposed as driver of adaptive cognitive architecture.
- World-disclosing behavior that resolves uncertainty; driven by epistemic value and novelty components of expected free energy
- Active inference theory of consciousness where a hyper-generative-model recursively monitors all inference layers; proposed as mechanism for contemplative wisdom in AI
- Opportunity for information gain presented by a particular course of action.
- Bayes-optimal exploration driven by uncertainty minimization; natural behavior in active inference without handcrafted mechanisms.
- The ability to gain relevant empirical information about the world and options.
- Probability of sensory input expected by an agent, aligning value maximization with surprise minimization.