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Accuracy
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Action
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Action Planning
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Active Inference
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Active States
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Affordance
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Agency
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Agent
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Ambiguity
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Attention
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Bayesian Inference
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Behavior
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Belief
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Belief updating
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Blanket State
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Cognition
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Complexity
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Data
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Ensemble
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Epistemic value
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Evidence
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Expectation
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Expected Free Energy
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EFE
External State
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Free Energy
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FE
Free Energy Principle
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FEP
Friston Blanket
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Generalized Free Energy
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Generative Model
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Generative Process
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Hierarchical Model
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Inference
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Information
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Internal State
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Learning
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Living system
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Markov Blanket
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Markov Decision Process
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Multi-scale system
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Niche
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Non-Equilibrium Steady State
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NESS
Observation
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Particle
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Perception
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Policy
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Policy selection
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Posterior
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Pragmatic Value
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Prediction
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Preference
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Prior
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Recognition Model
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Representation
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Salience
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Sense State
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State
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State space
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Stationarity
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Surprise
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System
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Temporal Depth
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Uncertainty
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Variational Free Energy
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Outcome
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Habit
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Supplement
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Abstract Action
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Abstract action prediction
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Abstract Bayesian Inference
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Abstract epistemic value
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Abstract External State
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Abstract Generative Model
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Abstract Hidden State
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Abstract Internal State
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Abstract Sensory State
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Abstract System
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Abstract Accuracy
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abstractCounterpart
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Action and Planning as Divergence Minimization
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Action at a distance
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Action Integral
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Action Prediction
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Active Vision
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Agency based model
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Agency free model
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Algorithm
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Alignment
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analogy
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Appraisal theories of emotion
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Attenuation of response
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Augmented reality
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Autopoiesis
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Bayes-optimal control
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Bayesian
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Bayesian Brain
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Bayesian surprise
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Bethe approximation
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Bottom-up attentional control
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chaos
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Circular causality
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Cognitive Science
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Cognitive System
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Cognitivism
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Collective behavior
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Conceptual metaphor
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Conditional Probability
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Confidence
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Congruence
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Connectionism
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Control (states)
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Control theory
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Counterfactual
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Cue
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Culture
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Cybernetics
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Decision-making
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Density
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Deontic Action
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Development
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Dissipation
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Distribution
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divergence
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Kullback-Leibler Divergence
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Domain
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Domain-generality
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Domain-specificity
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Dynamic Causal Modelling
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DCM
Dynamic expectation maximization
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Dynamicism
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Ecology
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EcoEvoDevo
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Embedded Embodied Encultured Enactive Inference
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Embodied Cybernetic Complexity
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Embodied Belief
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Emotion
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Empirical prior
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Enactivism
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Entropy
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Ergodicity
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Estimator
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Event-related potential
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ERP
Evolution
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Expectation maximization
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Expected Utility Theory
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Experience of body ownership
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EBO
Explaining Away
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Explanation
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Extended Cognition
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Factor graph
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Falsification
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Far-from-equilibrium
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Fokker-Planck Equation
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Foraging
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Forney
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Friction
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Friston's Law
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functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRi)
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fMRI
Gaussian distribution
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Generalized coordinates
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Generalized Synchrony
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Generative density
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Generative modelling
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Gestalt
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Goal-driven selection
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Gradient Descent
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Graphical
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Group Renormalization Theory
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Guidance signal
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Habit learning/formation
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Hamilton's Principle of Least Action
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Helmholtz machine
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Hidden State
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Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind
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Homeostasis
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Homeostatic system
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Hyperprior
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Hypothesis
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Information bottleneck
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Information Geometry
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Instrumentalism
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Interface
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Interoception
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Interoceptive sensitivity
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Interpretation
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Inverse problem
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Latent cause
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Lateral geniculate nucleus
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Likelihood
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Marginal approximation
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Markovian Monism
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Marr's Levels of Description
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Material science
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Mean
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Mean field approximation
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Memory
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Message Passing
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Mismatch negativity
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Mode
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Model
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Model accuracy
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Model Inversion
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Morphogenesis
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Multisensory integration