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concept:prior-intentionPrior Intention
Cognitive bifurcation event where second-order contextual constraints reorganize semantic space, establishing weighted alternatives for action.
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- Prior Intention Formationrelated_to
- Attractorsassociated_withDynamical concept: stable regions in a system's state space; proximate intention becomes attractor that entrains motor dynamics.
- Bifurcation (Catastrophe)associated_withPhase transition in cognitive space when prior intention forms; reorganizes constraint landscape analogously to plate tectonics.
- Load-bearing characterization of how prior intention forms as phase transition in cognitive dynamics; core mechanism of action.
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Beliefs about states before data; used to transcribe task instructions into agent's generative model
- Target distribution over states or outcomes encoded in the generative model; goal states.
- The key novel contribution: an internal model that learns the density of familiar multisensory experiences and drives mark-removal behavior through mismatch with the free energy principle
- The set of attributes B of a formal concept (A,B).
- Task of checking a model's intentions; found by Lindsey (2026) to peak at ~1/2 depth.
- Replaces explicit reward signal in active inference; encodes agent's preferred observations independent of environment.
- The model's unlabeled, behavior-agnostic repository of regularities.
- Character trait measuring whether LMs consistently intend to cause helpful and harmless outcomes via the adaptation test.