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Accuracy
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Action
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Action Planning
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Action prediction
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Active Inference
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Active Learning
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Active States
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Active Vision
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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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Autopoiesis
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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 States
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Cognition
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Complexity
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Cue
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Culture
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Data
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Decision-making
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Ensemble
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Epistemic value
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Epistemic value is......
From Karl: Epistemic value is the information gain or reduction in uncertainty about latent states afforded by the outcomes of a particular policy. It is variously known as Bayesian surprise, epistemic affordance, the value of information, intrinsic motivation and so on. Mathematically, it is the KL divergence between beliefs about latent states before and after the outcomes of a policy. Epistemic value is the value of a policy that is a functional of beliefs about the causes of sensations.
Ergodicity
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Evidence
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Expected Free Energy
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External States
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Free Energy
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Free Energy Principle
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Friston Blanket
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Generalized Free Energy
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Generative model
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A formalism that describes the mapping between inferred hidden states/causes, and expected outcomes/observations
RECOGNITION models update internal parameters that correspond to external states (including hidden causes of environmental states), blanket states, and internal states (meta-modeling). In contrast, GENERATIVE models take those same internal parameter estimates and emit expected or plausible observations.
Generative Process
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Hidden state
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Hierarchical Model
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Inference
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Information
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Information Geometry
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Internal States
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Latent cause
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Living system
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Markov Blanket
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(Statistical) partitioning of system of interest, from environment, by an interface or boundary. A minimal Markov blanket is known as a Markov boundary.
Markov Decision Process
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Markovian Monism
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Model Inversion
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Multi-scale system
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Narrative (model)
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Niche
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Non-Equilibrium Steady State
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Technically, a steady-state requires a solution to the Fokker Planck equation (i.e., density dynamics). A nonequilibrium steady-state solution entails solenoidal (i.e., conservative or divergence free) dynamics that break detailed balance (and underwrite stochastic chaos). In other words, The dynamics of systems at nonequilibrium steady-state are not time reversible (unlike equilibrium steady states, in which the flow is entirely dissipative).
Novelty
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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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Pragmatic value is the benefit to an organism of a given policy or action, measured in terms of probability of a policy leading to a characteristic outcome (for the agent in question)
Pragmatic value describes the extent to which a given action is aligned with rewarding preferences over sensory outcomes.
Prediction
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Principle
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Process Theory
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Recognition Models
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Regime of Attention
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Representation
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Risk
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Salience
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Sense States
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State
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State space
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Set of variables/parameters that describe a system.
A state space is the set of all possible configurations of a system
Surprise
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System
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Set of relations
Differentiable and Integratable in terms of Variables and functions.
Betweenness/Relational (observer & ecology)
Temporal Depth
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Uncertainty
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Variational
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Variational free-energy
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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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AbstractAccuracy
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Action
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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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Active Inference
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Agency based model
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Agency free model
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Alignment (of internal states)
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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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Bayes-optimal control
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Bayesian
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Bayesian Brain
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Bayesian surprise
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Belief updating
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Bottom-up attentional control
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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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Conditional density
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Conditional Probability
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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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Cybernetics
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Density
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Deontic Action
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Development
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Dissisipation
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Divergence (Kullback–Leibler)
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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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Dynamic expectation maximization
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Dynamicism
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Ecology
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Ecology, Evolution, Development
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Embedded Embodied Encultured Enactive Inference
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Embodied Cybernetic Complexity
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EmbodiedBelief
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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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Estimator
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Event-related potential (ERP)
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Evolution
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Expectation maximization
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Expected Utility Theory
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Experience of body ownership (EBO)
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Explaining Away
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Explanation
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Extended Cognition
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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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Friston's Law
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functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
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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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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 (inference) machine
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Hierarchically Mechanistic Mind
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Homeostasis
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Homeostatic system
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Homeostatic system
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Hyperprior
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Hypothesis
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Information bottleneck (IB)
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Interoception
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Interoceptive sensitivity
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Inverse problem
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Lateral geniculate nucleus
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Likelihood
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Marr's Levels of Description
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Material science
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Memory
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Message Passing
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Mismatch negativity
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Model
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Model accuracy
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Morphogenesis
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Multisensory integration
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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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Optimal control
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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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Predictive coding (PC)
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Predictive Processing
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Prior
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Random variable
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Receptive field
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Recognition density
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Representationalism
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Reservoir Computing
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Reward
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Salience
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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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Sensory attenuation
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Sensory Data
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Sensory input
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Sensory outcome
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Shared Generative Model ('Shared Narrative')
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Signal
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Simulation
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Sophisticated Inference
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spike-timing dependent plasticity
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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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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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Thinking Through Other Minds
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Top-down attentional control
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Umwelt
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Unidirectionality or "mere" active inference
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Variational Niche Construction
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Von Economo neurons (VENs)
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Weak mixing
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Working memory
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World States (World Systems)
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Interface
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