Prior Intention Formation

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Prior Beliefsconcept0.754
  Beliefs about states before data; used to transcribe task instructions into agent's generative model
• Formulating a prior intention constitutes a catastrophic bifurcation—a phase change in cognitive organization—analogous to Bénard cell emergence.hypothesis0.751
• Prior Preferencesconcept0.750
  Target distribution over states or outcomes encoded in the generative model; goal states.
• Self-Priorframework0.736
  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
• intentconcept0.727
  The set of attributes B of a formal concept (A,B).
• intention checkingconcept0.726
  Task of checking a model's intentions; found by Lindsey (2026) to peak at ~1/2 depth.
• prior knowledge Ppriorconcept0.716
  The model's unlabeled, behavior-agnostic repository of regularities.
• "When agents formulate a prior intention, the establishment of second-order contextual constraints dissipates the disequilibrium by reorganizing a more complex region of cognitive and affective space."concept0.715
  Load-bearing characterization of how prior intention forms as phase transition in cognitive dynamics; core mechanism of action.