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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
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Narrative
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Network
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Neuronal Ensemble
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Niche construction
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Noisy signal
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Non-linear dynamical systems
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Novelty
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Optimal control
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overfitting
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Partition
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Policy posterior
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Policy prior
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Precision
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Prediction error
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Prediction error minimization
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Predictive Coding
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PC
Predictive Processing
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Principle
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Probability distribution
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Process Theory
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Random variable
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Realism
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Receptive field
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Recognition density
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Regime of Attention
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Representationalism
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Reservoir Computing
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Reward
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Risk
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Sample space
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Selection bias
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Selection history
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Self-organization
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Selfhood
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Semi-Markovian
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Sense of agency
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Sensorimotor
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Sensory attenuation
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Sensory Data
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Sensory input
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Sensory outcome
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Sentience
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Shared Generative Model
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Signal
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Simulation
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solenoidal
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Sophisticated Inference
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spike-timing dependent plasticity
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Statistical manifold
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Stigmergy
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Stochastic
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Subjective feeling states
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Surprisal
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Swarm
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Symbol
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Synergetics
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Teams
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Theory
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Thermodynamic system
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Thermostatistics
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Thing
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Thinking Through Other Minds
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TTOM
Top-down attentional control
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Umwelt
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Unidirectionality
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Update
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Variance
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Variational
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Variational Niche Construction
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VNC
Von Economo neurons
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Weak mixing
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Working memory
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World States
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Active learning
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Attracting set
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Bayesian belief updating
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Bayesian mechanics
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Coarse graining
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Continuous state space
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Discrete state space
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Epistemic foraging
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Hermeneutics
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Least action
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link
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Partially Observed Markov Decision Process
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POMDP
Renormalization
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Variational message passing
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Variational principle
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Lagrangian
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Path integral
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Sensory observation
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changing mind (cognition)
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changing world (action)
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High road
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Low road
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normative
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active processes
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changing the mind
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changing the world
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model evidence
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predictive machine
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Bayesian Model Selection
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Blanket index
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categorical
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constraint
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fitness
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flow
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Gauge theory
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Helmholtz Free Energy
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maximum caliber
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path
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phenotype
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population
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Quantum
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Quantum-like
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Qubit
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Sensory State
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Sensory states
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sufficient statistic
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time
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Active Blockference
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Analytical Philosophy
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Category Theory
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Continental Philosophy
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DeSci
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Exteroception
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Filter
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Helmholtz Decomposition
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Proprioception
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Quantum mechanics
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Statistical Parametric Mapping
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SPM
T-Maze
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Effective
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Effectivity
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Nested
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Path of Least Action
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Precariousness
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affect
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Deflationary
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Inflationary
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Co-category
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Functor
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Lens
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Monad
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anticipation
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matching
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tracking
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category
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colimit
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morphism
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Allostasis
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Artificial
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frequentist
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intelligence
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Natural
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sparsity
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tensor network
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Bayes Theorem
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Credibility
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degrees of freedom
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interaction
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tensor
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unit of adaptive behavior
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Gain
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