Active Inference

Neuroscience and mathematical frameworks for inference, perception and action. Begin with a small probabilistic model before tackling the formal free-energy principle.

MIT Press, 2022; open-access edition; DOI 10.7551/mitpress/12441.001.0001

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• How can an action change the information available to an agent?

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  Neuroscience and mathematical frameworks for inference, perception and action. Begin with a small probabilistic model before tackling the formal free-energy principle.

• How can an action change the information available to an agent?

  coreComplete main text; the sequential locations below cover the whole work.

  Neuroscience and mathematical frameworks for inference, perception and action. Begin with a small probabilistic model before tackling the formal free-energy principle.

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