Active Inference The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior

• Main Author: Parr, Thomas (auth)
• Other Authors: Pezzulo, Giovanni (auth), Friston, Karl J. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: The MIT Press
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Philosophy of mind; Active Inference; free energy; predictive coding; Bayesian inference; predictive processing; planning as inference; active sensing; hypothesis testing; behavior; theoretical neurobiology; brain; computational neuroscience; perception; planning; action; control.
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The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior-a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic in...