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Active Inference Ontology
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Accuracy
A lower-resolution camera or fMRI has lower and thus lesser capacity to map fine scale features of stimuli.
The true distribution was 10 +/- 1 and the person guessed 10 +/- 5, thus they had higher . I was sure the green car was really blue; this inaccuracy was caused by the dim light.
Action
Ants are continually involved in in real life () and/or in a ()
Action Planning
The robot assessed its current and target location, then engaged in to decide under time pressure how to navigate.
The used algorithms for on
Active Inference
It is fun and rewarding to learn and apply as a framework for , , and — it is a compatible with the .
is a style of reinforcement learning that uses statistics only.
Active States
The of the computer program are the statistical outputs that it presents, while the are the incoming statistical dependencies.
Canada and Kenya have many people involved in dance, really you could say these two are
Affordance
Agency
An uses their to sculpt their which makes it more predictable thereby minimizing the agent’s and maintaining its in the face of random fluctuations.
Agent
Ambiguity
The noisy readings from the thermometer resulted in high given the to the .
Attention
The instantly updated to the new because it was paying maximal to the .
Bayesian Inference
Many of the key ideas of existed before Rev. Bayes, and in some cases reflect recent contributions from computational research.
Behavior
The of this hammer is being determined entirely by my s without being intermediated by s.
Belief
Belief updating
I promise that if you vote for me, even if I change my mind due to new coming in, I will never undergo — so you know exactly what you get with me!
Blanket State
Cognition
Complexity
can refer to the number of predictor or independent variables or features that a model needs to take into account in order to make accurate prediction.
Ensemble
The ant colony from a al, or perspective, is an of nestmates.
After the band played their final song, the crowd called out “!”, prompting them to play another song.
Epistemic value
When the environment contains I would like to undertake the action of
for the sake of it to see if I can gather more relevant s to explain what is going on around me. Such relevant s have for me as an . In the case of temperature homeostasis, taking s that move the body temperature in an adaptive direction are of purely .
Evidence
Expectation
At timestep 1, the made a prediction about through time, this was an about the future.
Although the scientist made a about the future using a , it was not an since they were not waiting for it to be realized.
Expected Free Energy
The deep affective used calculation as a basis of .
The amount of calories that the has at is the .
External State
In my of temperature, the true temperature in the room is being modeled as an (), so we will never know it.
Free Energy
can refer to various different formulations and decompositions, that share some important key features.
Free Energy Principle
Friston Blanket
A is a type of where s are associated with incoming and states are associated with outgoing of the .
Generalized Free Energy
wrote “Crucially, this means the reduces to the for outcomes that had been observed in the past.....Outcomes in the formulation are represented explicitly as s. This means that the over is incorporated explicitly in the generative model.”
The speaker was talking about on in a very broad and vague fashion, this is identical to .
Generative Model
es are commonly used for computational modeling of s.
The subject of the photography session made art as well, they are a — but if they wouldn’t have made the art, they would have only been a , not a .
Generative Process
Hierarchical Model
Inference
The researcher made of where the was doing on ( , ) as well as ( ).
The ball rolled downhill using on , sometimes veering more to the left and other times more to the right.
Information
I listened to that podcast and the file checksum was OK but the was modified relative to the reference version.
Internal State
When the describes a forest outside, and the s describe the bark of the tree, the s describe the core of the tree.
The of the internet is equivalent to the total number of computers connected to it at any given time.
Learning
The software agent engaged in on internal s, this is technically .
Every day we change, but from a perspective it is only if the is adaptive.
Living system
Markov Blanket
s are features of Maps (e.g. s), not of Territories (e.g. ant colonies or brains).
Markov Decision Process
Whether it is fully observable or not, one common type of model used in control theory is a
Multi-scale system
In culinary arts, a is a method for measuring ingredients in both metric and imperial units.
Niche
Non-Equilibrium Steady State
Blood sugar levels are dynamic and fluctuating, however they revisit characteristic states repeatedly, this can be described by a .
The ball just lay still on the floor, we can describe this as exhibiting a .
Observation
Particle
Perception
Visual gives us many demonstrations of the characteristics of our — for example saccades, the blind spot, and blink supression.
Policy
Policy selection
When the decided to go one way instead of the other, it was due to an internal process of , specifically .
We went shopping for insurance and the package was already determined for me, this is a case of .
Posterior
The distribution reflects our degrees of about s after we see .
Pragmatic Value
The had s for there to be more beans in the jar, so adding more beans was of for them.
If a reduces the divergence between your s and s, it is defined as having negative .
Prediction
After successfully the structure of the the can make a about the future state of this and the associated it will generate.
Preference
The of the bacteria underwent fitting ( / ) on , guided by a for medium but not high/low sugar concentration.
Recognition Model
After constructing a , an can invert this model to obtain the which allows for the prediction of the (causes) that generated some new .
Representation
The sterotypical neural pattern induced by a is considered a , at least by those who subscribe to .
Salience
Sense State
Most models don’t show it, but actually all s include a “sixth “.
State
State space
Stationarity
Surprise
Surprisal cannot be minimized directly because it is involves calculating the term in Bayes’ Rule which generally involves an intractable integral over all possible states an organism can be in.
System
Temporal Depth
In deep temporal models, or occurs because of the number of possibilities one must account for increases as more future states are modeled (see: )
Uncertainty
A measure of unpredictability or expected (cf, ). The about a is often quantified with its (inverse ).
Variational Free Energy
is a tractable way to compute an upper bound on of a given
.Our electric bill fluctuates so much each month though on average it is zero; this is known as .
Outcome
Habit
Supplement
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Abstract Action
Abstract action prediction
Abstract Bayesian Inference
Abstract epistemic value
Abstract External State
Abstract Generative Model
Abstract Hidden State
Abstract Internal State
Abstract Sensory State
Abstract System
Abstract Accuracy
abstractCounterpart
Action and Planning as Divergence Minimization
Action at a distance
Action Integral
Action Prediction
The over the next few timesteps with respect to , is the .
The inferred what s it had, this process is known as or .
Agency based model
Agency free model
Algorithm
Alignment
analogy
Appraisal theories of emotion
Attenuation of response
Augmented reality
Autopoiesis
The pile of sand quickly dissipated in the wind, however I still think it is my favorite example of long-range .
Bayes-optimal control
Bayesian
Bayesian Brain
Bayesian surprise
Bethe approximation
Bottom-up attentional control
chaos
Circular causality
Cognitive Science
Cognitive System
Cognitivism
Collective behavior
Conceptual metaphor
Conditional Probability
Confidence
Congruence
Connectionism
Control (states)
Control theory
Counterfactual
Cue
Culture
Cybernetics
Decision-making
Density
Deontic Action
Development
Dissipation
Distribution
divergence
Kullback-Leibler Divergence
Domain
Domain-generality
Domain-specificity
Dynamic Causal Modelling
Dynamic expectation maximization
Dynamicism
Ecology
EcoEvoDevo
Embedded Embodied Encultured Enactive Inference
Embodied Cybernetic Complexity
Embodied Belief
Emotion
Empirical prior
Enactivism
Entropy
Ergodicity
Estimator
Event-related potential
Evolution
Expectation maximization
Expected Utility Theory
Experience of body ownership
Explaining Away
Explanation
Extended Cognition
Factor graph
Falsification
Far-from-equilibrium
Fokker-Planck Equation
Foraging
Forney
Friction
Friston's Law
functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRi)
Gaussian distribution
Generalized coordinates
Generalized Synchrony
Generative density
Generative modelling
Gestalt
Goal-driven selection
Gradient Descent
Graphical
Group Renormalization Theory
Guidance signal
Habit learning/formation
Hamilton's Principle of Least Action
Helmholtz machine
Hidden State
Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind
Homeostasis
Homeostatic system
Hyperprior
Hypothesis
Information bottleneck
Information Geometry
Instrumentalism
Interface
Interoception
Interoceptive sensitivity
Interpretation
Inverse problem
Latent cause
Lateral geniculate nucleus
Likelihood
Marginal approximation
Markovian Monism
Marr's Levels of Description
Material science
Mean
Mean field approximation
Memory
Message Passing
Mismatch negativity
Mode
Model
Model accuracy
Model Inversion
Morphogenesis
Multisensory integration
Network
Neuronal Ensemble
Niche construction
Noisy signal
Non-linear dynamical systems
Optimal control
overfitting
Partition
Policy posterior
Policy prior
Precision
Prediction error
Prediction error minimization
Predictive Coding
Predictive Processing
Principle
Probability distribution
Process Theory
Friston “The distinction is between a [theory] and ; i.e., the difference between a normative principle that things may or may not conform to, and a or hypothesis about how that principle is realized”
Random variable
Realism
Receptive field
Recognition density
Regime of Attention
Representationalism
Reservoir Computing
Reward
Risk
Sample space
Selection bias
Selection history
Self-organization
Selfhood
Semi-Markovian
Sense of agency
Sensorimotor
Sensory attenuation
Sensory Data
Sensory input
Sensory outcome
Sentience
Shared Generative Model
Signal
Simulation
solenoidal
Sophisticated Inference
spike-timing dependent plasticity
Statistical manifold
Stigmergy
Stochastic
Subjective feeling states
Surprisal
Swarm
Symbol
Synergetics
Teams
Theory
Thermodynamic system
Thermostatistics
Thing
Thinking Through Other Minds
Top-down attentional control
Umwelt
Unidirectionality
Update
Variance
Variational
Variational Niche Construction
Von Economo neurons
Weak mixing
Working memory
World States
Active learning
Attracting set
Bayesian belief updating
Bayesian mechanics
Coarse graining
Continuous state space
Discrete state space
Epistemic foraging
Hermeneutics
Least action
link
Partially Observed Markov Decision Process
Renormalization
Variational message passing
Variational principle
Lagrangian
Path integral
Sensory observation
changing mind (cognition)
changing world (action)
High road
The to the starts by talking about random in general without a specific focus on biological organisms with brains.
Low road
The
to the starts by looking at how biological organisms perceive their and take actions within it to develop a notion about how they can successfully predict the next state they will be in ( as testing). normative
active processes
changing the mind
changing the world
model evidence
predictive machine
Bayesian Model Selection
Blanket index
categorical
constraint
fitness
flow
Gauge theory
Helmholtz Free Energy
maximum caliber
path
phenotype
population
Quantum
Quantum-like
Qubit
Sensory State
Sensory states
sufficient statistic
time
Active Blockference
Analytical Philosophy
Category Theory
Continental Philosophy
DeSci
Exteroception
Filter
Helmholtz Decomposition
Proprioception
Quantum mechanics
Statistical Parametric Mapping
T-Maze
Effective
Effectivity
Nested
Path of Least Action
Precariousness
affect
Deflationary
Inflationary
Co-category
Functor
Lens
Monad
anticipation
matching
tracking
category
colimit
morphism
Allostasis
Artificial
frequentist
intelligence
Natural
sparsity
tensor network
Bayes Theorem
Credibility
degrees of freedom
interaction
unit of adaptive behavior
Attractor
Dissipation
Ergodicity
Self-evidencing
Self-model
Solenoidal Flow
Entailed
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