Friston, FitzGerald et al. (2017) — Active inference: A process theory

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• Active inference offers a degree of plausibility as a process theory of brain function.claim0.856
  Overall assessment from Discussion.
• Friston et al. 2016: Active inference and learning (Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews)concept0.825
  Foundational active inference reference
• Active inference provides a principled account of epistemic exploration and intrinsic motivation as minimizing uncertainty.claim0.819
  §1, listing contributions.
• Active Inferenceframework0.819
  Foundational framework by Karl Friston; the paper extends it to three hierarchical levels for modeling meta-awareness.
• Active inference provides a framework (derived from first principles) for solving and understanding the behavior of autonomous agents.claim0.815
• Active inference describes the dynamics of systems that persist at non-equilibrium steady-state and that can be statistically segregated from their environment via a Markov blanket.claim0.812
  Sets the theoretical grounding in Section 2.
• "active inference separates the problems of optimizing action and perception by assuming that action fulfills predictions based on inferred states"quote0.810
• Active inference is a normative principle underwriting perception, action, planning, decision-making and learning in biological or artificial agents.quote0.810