An active-inference agent tends to make its principals predictable, so a corrigible one must treat correction as a preferred observation.

groundsThe evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference, Giovanni Pezzulo, Thomas Parr, Karl Friston

An organism can minimize this discrepancy in two ways: by changing her mind to predict better the next observation (perception) or by changing the world to ensure that the next observation complies with predictions (action) (see figure 1a).

groundsAs One and Many: Relating Individual and Emergent Group-Level Generative Models in Active Inference, Peter Thestrup Waade, Christoffer Lundbak Olesen, Jonathan Ehrenreich Laursen, Samuel William Nehrer, Conor Heins, Karl Friston, Christoph Mathys

The preference prior is usually immutable, which means that the only way to minimize free energy is to act such that the prior is most likely to be realized, and that it therefore encodes the preferred observations of the agent.