The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?

Selected reading: Hierarchical predictions, errors and model assumptions.

How to study this source

• Does the brain predict its world?

  coreHierarchical predictions, errors and model assumptions

  Separate the mathematical construction, biological assumptions and proposed empirical scope.

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.

• Active Inference

  Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo · Karl Friston. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.