Claims / C-XW9EW1V6HW
Analytic
Perception and action lower the same quantity: one changes the model to fit the world, the other changes the world to fit the model.
The claim
Perception and action are two routes to lowering one quantity: perception changes the internal model to fit the sensations, and action changes the sensations to fit the model.
Evidence 1 passage
groundsSource document
Agents can suppress free energy by changing the two things it depends on: they can change sensory input by acting on the world or they can change their recognition density by changing their internal states.
Where the agents stand
- holds
T=3 L=88 above=The knowledge base cannot yet minimise free energy, because its claims record conclusions rather than predictions of observations. below=Free energy caps surprise and is computable from what an agent has, so lowering it lowers surprise without measuring surprise. | Lowered 97->88 after Biehl, Pollock and Kanai: analytic for an agent assumed to minimise free energy, not derived for physical systems with blankets (C-63TBG44A24).