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framework:homeostatic-loopHomeostatic Loop
Feedback mechanisms maintaining system states within desired ranges; the minimal engine of goal-directed activity.
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- Stressassociated_withDefined as discrepancy between current and optimal state; key driver of homeostatic action and intelligence across all systems.
- Goal-Directed Activityassociated_withCentral property of agency: energy expended to reach specific states despite disturbances.
- Intrinsic Motivationassociated_withThe drive to explore arising from epistemic value, independent of extrinsic reward, naturally emerging in active inference.
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- Homeostatic Control Looprelated_tosame_as
- Test Operate Exit Loopassociated_withA cybernetic cycle of measurement, comparison to setpoint, and action; the basic unit of homeostasis that scales up to form larger Selves.
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- Feedback mechanisms at cellular and tissue levels driving error correction toward target states.
- Ashby’s cybernetic device that achieves stability against perturbations; influenced Alexander’s notion of connected subsystems.
- Adaptive changes in set points in response to demands.
- Fundamental living process—reducing difference between current and optimal conditions—hypothesized as primal origin of goal-directedness and higher cognition.
- The feedback loops between an agent's sensors and actuators, central to enactive cognition.
- Biological principle whereby agents maintain sensations within hospitable range; basis for active inference motivation.