Maladaptive social norms, cultural progress, and the free-energy principle
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19002723
Abstract: Abstract Veissière and collaborators ground their account of culture and social norms in the free-energy principle, which postulates that the utility (or adaptive value) of an outcome is equivalent to its probability. This equivalence would… read more here.
Keywords: free energy; social norms; energy principle; maladaptive social ... See more keywords
The cost of over-intellectualizing the free-energy principle
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DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x19002851
Abstract: Abstract This commentary raises a question about the target article's proposed explanation of what goes on when we think through other minds. It highlights a tension between non-mindreading characterizations of everyday social cognition and the… read more here.
Keywords: free energy; energy principle; cost intellectualizing; intellectualizing free ... See more keywords
Recognition Dynamics in the Brain under the Free Energy Principle
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DOI: 10.1162/neco_a_01115
Abstract: We formulate the computational processes of perception in the framework of the principle of least action by postulating the theoretical action as a time integral of the variational free energy in the neurosciences. The free… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; energy; brain; recognition dynamics ... See more keywords
Fetal brain activity and the free energy principle
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DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2023-0092
Abstract: Abstract Objectives To study whether the free energy principle can explain fetal brain activity and the existence of fetal consciousness via a chaotic dimension derived using artificial intelligence. Methods In this observational study, we used… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; energy; free energy; brain activity ... See more keywords
Does the metaphysical dog wag its formal tail? The free-energy principle and philosophical debates about life, mind, and matter
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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/nbv2u
Abstract: Abstract According to Bruineberg and colleagues, philosophical arguments on life, mind, and matter that are based on the free-energy principle (FEP) (1) essentially draw on the Markov blanket construct and (2) tend to assume that… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; life mind; mind matter; free energy ... See more keywords
Brain Entropy During Aging Through a Free Energy Principle Approach
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DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2021.647513
Abstract: Neural complexity and brain entropy (BEN) have gained greater interest in recent years. The dynamics of neural signals and their relations with information processing continue to be investigated through different measures in a variety of… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; brain; brain entropy; free energy ... See more keywords
Beauty and Uncertainty as Transformative Factors: A Free Energy Principle Account of Aesthetic Diagnosis and Intervention in Gestalt Psychotherapy
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DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.906188
Abstract: Drawing from field theory, Gestalt therapy conceives psychological suffering and psychotherapy as two intentional field phenomena, where unprocessed and chaotic experiences seek the opportunity to emerge and be assimilated through the contact between the patient… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; beauty; free energy; gestalt ... See more keywords
Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle
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DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2021.647579
Abstract: Scientific interest in the brain and body interactions has been surging in recent years. One fundamental yet underexplored aspect of brain and body interactions is the link between the respiratory and the nervous systems. In… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; free energy; respiration; keeping breath ... See more keywords
How Stress Can Change Our Deepest Preferences: Stress Habituation Explained Using the Free Energy Principle
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.865203
Abstract: People who habituate to stress show a repetition-induced response attenuation—neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, neuroenergetic, and emotional—when exposed to a threatening environment. But the exact dynamics underlying stress habituation remain obscure. The free energy principle offers a unifying… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; stress habituation; free energy; habituation ... See more keywords
The Free Energy Principle: Good Science and Questionable Philosophy in a Grand Unifying Theory
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DOI: 10.3390/e23020238
Abstract: The Free Energy Principle (FEP) is currently one of the most promising frameworks with which to address a unified explanation of life-related phenomena. With powerful formalism that embeds a small set of assumptions, it purports… read more here.
Keywords: energy principle; principle; philosophy; free energy ... See more keywords