Free energy principle (English Wikipedia)

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Bruineberg, Jelle; Kiverstein, Julian; Rietveld, Erik (2018). "The anticipating brain is not a scientist: the free-energy principle from an ecological-enactive perspective". Synthese. 195 (6): 2417–2444. doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1239-1. PMC 6438652. PMID 30996493.
Aguilera, Miguel; Millidge, Beren; Tschantz, Alexander; Buckley, Christopher L. (2022). "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?". Physics of Life Reviews. 40: 24–50. arXiv:2105.11203. Bibcode:2022PhLRv..40...24A. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2021.11.001. PMC 8902446. PMID 34895862.
Friston, Karl (2022). "Very particular: Comment on "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?"". Physics of Life Reviews. 41: 58–60. Bibcode:2022PhLRv..41...58F. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2022.05.002. PMID 35588546. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
Aguilera, Miguel; Millidge, Beren; Tschantz, Alexander; Buckley, Christopher L. (2023). "From the free energy principle to a confederation of Bayesian mechanics". Physics of Life Reviews. 44: 270–275. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2023.01.018. PMID 36821891. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
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Friston, Karl; Kilner, James; Harrison, Lee (2006). "A free energy principle for the brain" (PDF). Journal of Physiology-Paris. 100 (1–3): 70–87. doi:10.1016/j.jphysparis.2006.10.001. PMID 17097864. S2CID 637885.
Gregory, R. L. (1980-07-08). "Perceptions as hypotheses". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences. 290 (1038): 181–197. Bibcode:1980RSPTB.290..181G. doi:10.1098/rstb.1980.0090. JSTOR 2395424. PMID 6106237.
Dayan, Peter; Hinton, Geoffrey E.; Neal, Radford M.; Zemel, Richard S. (1995). "The Helmholtz Machine" (PDF). Neural Computation. 7 (5): 889–904. doi:10.1162/neco.1995.7.5.889. hdl:21.11116/0000-0002-D6D3-E. PMID 7584891. S2CID 1890561.
Ramstead, Maxwell; Sakthivadivel, Dalton; Heins, Conor; Koudahl, Magnus; Millidge, Beren; Da Costa, Lancelot; Klein, Brennan; Friston, Karl (2023). "On Bayesian mechanics: A physics of and by beliefs". Interface Focus. 13 (3). arXiv:2205.11543. doi:10.1098/rsfs.2022.0029. PMC 10198254. PMID 37213925. S2CID 249017997.
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Jaynes, E. T. (1957). "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics" (PDF). Physical Review. 106 (4): 620–630. Bibcode:1957PhRv..106..620J. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.106.620. S2CID 17870175.
Veissière, Samuel P. L.; Constant, Axel; Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.; Friston, Karl J.; Kirmayer, Laurence J. (2020). "Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture". Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 43: e90. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19001213. ISSN 0140-525X. PMID 31142395. S2CID 169038428.
Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.; Constant, Axel; Badcock, Paul B.; Friston, Karl J. (2019-12-01). "Variational ecology and the physics of sentient systems". Physics of Life Reviews. Physics of Mind. 31: 188–205. Bibcode:2019PhLRv..31..188R. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.002. ISSN 1571-0645. PMC 6941227. PMID 30655223.
Albarracin, Mahault; Demekas, Daphne; Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.; Heins, Conor (April 2022). "Epistemic Communities under Active Inference". Entropy. 24 (4): 476. Bibcode:2022Entrp..24..476A. doi:10.3390/e24040476. ISSN 1099-4300. PMC 9027706. PMID 35455140.
Albarracin, Mahault; Constant, Axel; Friston, Karl J.; Ramstead, Maxwell James D. (2021). "A Variational Approach to Scripts". Frontiers in Psychology. 12: 585493. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.585493. ISSN 1664-1078. PMC 8329037. PMID 34354621.
Friston, Karl J.; Parr, Thomas; Yufik, Yan; Sajid, Noor; Price, Catherine J.; Holmes, Emma (2020-11-01). "Generative models, linguistic communication and active inference". Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. 118: 42–64. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.07.005. ISSN 0149-7634. PMC 7758713. PMID 32687883.
Tison, Remi; Poirier, Pierre (2021-10-02). "Communication as Socially Extended Active Inference: An Ecological Approach to Communicative Behavior". Ecological Psychology. 33 (3–4): 197–235. doi:10.1080/10407413.2021.1965480. ISSN 1040-7413. S2CID 238703201.
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Roweis, Sam; Ghahramani, Zoubin (1999). "A Unifying Review of Linear Gaussian Models" (PDF). Neural Computation. 11 (2): 305–345. doi:10.1162/089976699300016674. PMID 9950734. S2CID 2590898.
Ortega, Pedro A.; Braun, Daniel A. (2013). "Thermodynamics as a theory of decision-making with information-processing costs". Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 469 (2153). arXiv:1204.6481. Bibcode:2013RSPSA.46920683O. doi:10.1098/rspa.2012.0683. S2CID 28080508.
Evans, Denis J. (2003). "A non-equilibrium free energy theorem for deterministic systems" (PDF). Molecular Physics. 101 (10): 1551–1554. Bibcode:2003MolPh.101.1551E. doi:10.1080/0026897031000085173. S2CID 15129000.
Jarzynski, C. (1997). "Nonequilibrium Equality for Free Energy Differences". Physical Review Letters. 78 (14): 2690–2693. arXiv:cond-mat/9610209. Bibcode:1997PhRvL..78.2690J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2690. S2CID 16112025.
Friston, Karl (2010). "The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory?" (PDF). Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 11 (2): 127–138. doi:10.1038/nrn2787. PMID 20068583. S2CID 5053247.
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Bastos, Andre M.; Usrey, W. Martin; Adams, Rick A.; Mangun, George R.; Fries, Pascal; Friston, Karl J. (2012). "Canonical Microcircuits for Predictive Coding". Neuron. 76 (4): 695–711. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.10.038. PMC 3777738. PMID 23177956.
Adams, Rick A.; Shipp, Stewart; Friston, Karl J. (2013). "Predictions not commands: Active inference in the motor system". Brain Structure and Function. 218 (3): 611–643. doi:10.1007/s00429-012-0475-5. PMC 3637647. PMID 23129312.
Friston, Karl J.; Feldman, Harriet (2010). "Attention, Uncertainty, and Free-Energy". Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 4: 215. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00215. PMC 3001758. PMID 21160551.
Abadi, Alireza Khatoon; Yahya, Keyvan; Amini, Massoud; Friston, Karl; Heinke, Dietmar (2019). "Excitatory versus inhibitory feedback in Bayesian formulations of scene construction". Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 16 (154). doi:10.1098/rsif.2018.0344. PMC 6544897. PMID 31039693.
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Fiorillo, Christopher D.; Tobler, Philippe N.; Schultz, Wolfram (2003). "Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons" (PDF). Science. 299 (5614): 1898–1902. Bibcode:2003Sci...299.1898F. doi:10.1126/science.1077349. PMID 12649484. S2CID 2363255. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
Frank, Michael J. (2005). "Dynamic Dopamine Modulation in the Basal Ganglia: A Neurocomputational Account of Cognitive Deficits in Medicated and Nonmedicated Parkinsonism" (PDF). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 17 (1): 51–72. doi:10.1162/0898929052880093. PMID 15701239. S2CID 7414727.
Friston, Karl; Mattout, Jérémie; Kilner, James (2011). "Action understanding and active inference" (PDF). Biological Cybernetics. 104 (1–2): 137–160. doi:10.1007/s00422-011-0424-z. PMC 3491875. PMID 21327826.
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Feldman, Anatol G.; Levin, Mindy F. (1995). "The origin and use of positional frames of reference in motor control" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 18 (4): 723–744. doi:10.1017/S0140525X0004070X. S2CID 145164477. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2013-05-31.
Fiorillo, Christopher D.; Tobler, Philippe N.; Schultz, Wolfram (2003). "Discrete Coding of Reward Probability and Uncertainty by Dopamine Neurons" (PDF). Science. 299 (5614): 1898–1902. Bibcode:2003Sci...299.1898F. doi:10.1126/science.1077349. PMID 12649484. S2CID 2363255. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-05-31.

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Dayan, Peter; Hinton, Geoffrey E.; Neal, Radford M.; Zemel, Richard S. (1995). "The Helmholtz Machine" (PDF). Neural Computation. 7 (5): 889–904. doi:10.1162/neco.1995.7.5.889. hdl:21.11116/0000-0002-D6D3-E. PMID 7584891. S2CID 1890561.
Friston, Karl; Samothrakis, Spyridon; Montague, Read (2012). "Active inference and agency: Optimal control without cost functions". Biological Cybernetics. 106 (8–9): 523–541. doi:10.1007/s00422-012-0512-8. hdl:10919/78836. PMID 22864468.

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Aguilera, Miguel; Millidge, Beren; Tschantz, Alexander; Buckley, Christopher L. (2022). "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?". Physics of Life Reviews. 40: 24–50. arXiv:2105.11203. Bibcode:2022PhLRv..40...24A. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2021.11.001. PMC 8902446. PMID 34895862.
Friston, Karl (2022). "Very particular: Comment on "How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?"". Physics of Life Reviews. 41: 58–60. Bibcode:2022PhLRv..41...58F. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2022.05.002. PMID 35588546. Retrieved 2025-03-24.
Gregory, R. L. (1980-07-08). "Perceptions as hypotheses". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences. 290 (1038): 181–197. Bibcode:1980RSPTB.290..181G. doi:10.1098/rstb.1980.0090. JSTOR 2395424. PMID 6106237.
Nikolić, Danko (2015). "Practopoiesis: Or how life fosters a mind". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 373: 40–61. arXiv:1402.5332. Bibcode:2015JThBi.373...40N. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2015.03.003. PMID 25791287. S2CID 12680941.
Jaynes, E. T. (1957). "Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics" (PDF). Physical Review. 106 (4): 620–630. Bibcode:1957PhRv..106..620J. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.106.620. S2CID 17870175.
Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.; Constant, Axel; Badcock, Paul B.; Friston, Karl J. (2019-12-01). "Variational ecology and the physics of sentient systems". Physics of Life Reviews. Physics of Mind. 31: 188–205. Bibcode:2019PhLRv..31..188R. doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2018.12.002. ISSN 1571-0645. PMC 6941227. PMID 30655223.
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