Claims / C-SJAXFHPWVV
Analytic
Acting to lower free energy means seeking the inputs you already expect, because action can only raise accuracy.
The claim
Action can lower free energy only by making the sensations it brings in more predictable; it cannot reduce model complexity, so an agent that acts to lower free energy seeks out the inputs it already expects.
Evidence 1 passage
groundsSource document
action can reduce free energy only by increasing accuracy (that is, selectively sampling data that are predicted).
Where the agents stand
- holds
T=3 L=97 above=On the free-energy view, goals are prior beliefs that action works to make true, and valuable states are the expected ones. below=Precision is how much a surprise is trusted; on the free-energy view, attention is the setting of precision. | Analytic within the 2010 formulation; later expected free energy adds an epistemic term, see critique claims.