Active Inference

Selected reading: One formal model and its stated assumptions.

How to study this source

• Does the brain predict its world?

  criticismOne formal model and its stated assumptions

  Select one formal model and compare its assumptions with the simpler toy example.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• Bayesian Brain

  Kenji Doya et al.. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Predictive Coding Under the Free-Energy Principle

  Karl Friston · Stefan Kiebel. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Whatever Next? Predictive Brains, Situated Agents, and the Future of Cognitive Science

  Andy Clark. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Interoceptive Inference, Emotion, and the Embodied Self

  Anil Seth. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Being No One

  Thomas Metzinger. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.