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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization

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This paper cites The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation: A New Frontier in Self-Determination Research.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization The Emerging Neuroscience of Intrinsic Motivation: A New Frontier in Self-Determination Research

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Empowerment: a universal agent-centric measure of control

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Empowerment -- an Introduction

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Active Inference: A Process Theory

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Active inference and epistemic value

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Active Inference as a Model of Agency

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This paper cites Complex behavior from intrinsic motivation to occupy future action-state path space.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Complex behavior from intrinsic motivation to occupy future action-state path space

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This paper cites Adaptive confidence and adaptive curiosity.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Adaptive confidence and adaptive curiosity

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This paper cites Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation (1990–2010).

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation (1990–2010)

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Bayesian surprise attracts human attention

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This paper cites Curiosity-Driven Exploration via Latent Bayesian Surprise.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Curiosity-Driven Exploration via Latent Bayesian Surprise

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This paper cites Empowerment, Free Energy Principle and Maximum Occupancy Principle Compared.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Empowerment, Free Energy Principle and Maximum Occupancy Principle Compared

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This paper cites Expanding the Active Inference Landscape: More Intrinsic Motivations in the Perception-Action Loop.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Expanding the Active Inference Landscape: More Intrinsic Motivations in the Perception-Action Loop

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Towards a Geometry and Analysis for Bayesian Mechanics

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Sophisticated Inference

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This paper cites Intrinsic Motivation in Dynamical Control Systems.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Intrinsic Motivation in Dynamical Control Systems

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This paper cites Causal Entropic Forces.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Causal Entropic Forces

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This paper cites In Facets of Systems Science; Springer US: Boston, MA, 1991; pp.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization In Facets of Systems Science; Springer US: Boston, MA, 1991; pp

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This paper cites The Predictive Mind; Oxford University Press UK: Oxford, GB, 2013.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization The Predictive Mind; Oxford University Press UK: Oxford, GB, 2013

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This paper cites Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects.

Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization A Stable, Fast, and Fully Automatic Learning Algorithm for Predictive Coding Networks

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization A free energy principle for a particular physics

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization A step-by-step tutorial on active inference and its application to empirical data

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Active Inference, Attention, and Motor Preparation

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Planning as inference

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization The Self-Evidencing Brain

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization pymdp: A Python library for active inference in discrete state spaces

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Whence the Expected Free Energy? Neural Computation 2021, 33, 447–482

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Information Theory and Statistical Mechanics

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Psychophysical Identity and Free Energy

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Reward is not Necessary: How to Create a Modular & Compositional Self-Preserving Agent for Life-Long Learning

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization On the thermodynamics of prediction under dissipative adaptation

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Supervised structure learning

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Generalised free energy and active inference

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Understanding the Origin of Information-Seeking Exploration in Probabilistic Objectives for Control

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Statistical physics of self-replication

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Probabilistic Principles for Biophysics and Neuroscience: Entropy Production, Bayesian Mechanics & the Free-Energy Principle

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization The World as Will and Representation ; Dover Publications: New York„ 1958

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization A Multi-scale View of the Emergent Complexity of Life: A Free-Energy Proposal

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization From pixels to planning: scale-free active inference

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Making the Thermodynamic Cost of Active Inference Explicit

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Intrinsic motivation as constrained entropy maximization Active Inference Models Do Not Contradict Folk Psychology.Synthese 2022, 200, 1–37

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