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A Retrospective on Active Inference

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Active Inference is a theory of adaptive action selection for agents proposed by Karl Friston initially and now expanded upon by many authors and forms a small academic subfield of research. The core claims of the theory are that action selection and decision-making can be usefully understood as inference problems...

Active Inference is a theory of adaptive action selection for agents proposed by Karl Friston initially and now expanded upon by many authors and forms a small academic subfield of research. The core claims of the theory are that action selection and decision-making can be usefully understood as inference problems (hence the name ‘active’ inference) and that adaptive action can be derived from first principles via the free energy principle, which essentially states that existence of an entity presupposes it performing some approximation to Bayesian inference which includes inference over ‘acti

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