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Probability of sensory input expected by an agent, aligning value maximization with surprise minimization.
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- Free Energy Principleassociated_withA foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.
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- Reinterprets classical reward/value concepts through free energy lens.
- Redefines value in probabilistic terms, linking to surprise minimisation.
- New cosmological assumption #5: value is inherent in the structure of space.
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- Value of Informationrelated_toEconomic concept related to epistemic value in expected free energy; information needed to realize rewards
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 11: The Face Of GodintroducesThis chapter argues that the quality without a name is literally God appearing, and that a necessary state of mind for making living things is to offer them as a gift to God.
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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.
- Spreadsheet-like rule defining how a rectangle's or object's value is computed; enables data-driven behavior across all Playground tools.
- Meaning that arises from relations within the graphical system, not inherent in elements.
- Negative of value, equated with free-energy and surprise.
- A dynamic programming method for computing optimal value functions and policies in known MDPs.
- The initial stage of uncertainty metabolization, pulling usable value from sensations.
- Expected evidence for preferred outcomes; utility-weighted term in expected free energy.
- Expected information gain about hidden states; drives curiosity and novelty-seeking; mutual information term in expected free energy.
- Data representation where attributes can take multiple values, requiring scaling to become a formal context.