How Can Minimal Agents In Heterarchical Competition Maintain

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

• The simple fact that intelligent agents are collectives and do not continue unchanged fulfills a necessary requirement for an open-ended evolution of intelligence.claim0.727
  Connects collective intelligence to evolutionary potential.
• How Do The Activities Of Competent Lowerlevel Agentsquestion0.725
• Exchanges with the environment are maintained within bounds that preserve the integrity of the agent through surprise minimization.claim0.725
  Links free energy minimization to homeostatic preservation of biological systems.
• Smith & Boyd (1991) criteria are irrelevant across the vast majority of the space of possible agents.claim0.725
  Dismissal of earlier criteria as too narrow.
• Agents perceive by minimizing variational free energy to ensure model consistency with past observations and act by minimizing expected free energy to make future sensations consistent with preferences.claim0.722
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
• Certain kinds of information structures actively facilitate their own transformation and remapping, exhibiting minimal agency.hypothesis0.721
  Speculative hypothesis that memories themselves are agents.
• By minimising variational free energy, agents perform approximate Bayesian inference.claim0.717
  Describes the epistemic function of variational free energy.
• How can we develop a semiotics of synthetic agents and their Umwelten?question0.713
  Question about communication and meaning in novel systems.