@dnsmnhasret Dikkat! Çok da gizli olmayan reklam içeriyor! Şuradan başlanabilir: Friston, K. The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Türkçe kaynak için: Bu düşüncenin bir özetinin de yer alacağı kitabım umarım birkaç aya çıkacaktır.
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The discussions predominantly reflect high interest, with users describing the theory as a 'canonical' or 'important' paper, and some expressing that it helped them understand complex phenomena, which highlights its impact. The tone varies from enthusiastic endorsements like 'game changer' to more analytical suggestions such as exploring links to Bayesian mechanics, showing a nuanced engagement with the content.
Most discussions acknowledge the core idea of the free-energy principle as a significant and influential theory in neuroscience, indicating mild agreement with its importance.
Posts show high interest, with many referencing the work as groundbreaking, useful, or central to current neurobiological research.
Engagement levels are moderate, with some posts sharing personal reflections, specific examples, and suggesting further reading, indicating thoughtful participation.
While some posts emphasize the theory’s significance in explaining brain function, overall influence seems promising but not revolutionary across all discussions yet.
Abstract in brief
- The freeenergy principle is a theory that explains how the brain manages action, perception, and learning by focusing on the concept of optimization, which is a common theme across various brain and physical sciences.
- It highlights that the brain aims to optimize certain quantities like expected reward, utility, or minimizing surprise and prediction error, which are all linked to how the brain predicts and responds to its environment.
- The freeenergy principle proposes that many different brain theories can be unified under this framework, suggesting a fundamental mechanism guiding brain function through the continuous process of minimizing free energy or prediction error.]
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Most liked on X and Bluesky@QiaochuYuan The papers people are recommending are pretty canonical; the Bayesian Mechanics one especially Friston’s original paper has some gems also; honestly I’d recommend skimming the first 3 pages of Friston’s then digging into Bayesian Mechanics https://t.co/JVLyXIAqVY
Dicho de otra forma, nuestra conciencia no es más que una agregación de cogniciones delimitadas por el no cumplimiento de nuestras predicciones https://t.co/6jE00h7snt
@metadiogenes @NeuroPolarbear @mjdramstead @chazfirestone This one! https://t.co/vM439fbUWg "The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?" 2009/2010 The OG paper, for me at least: I was on the fence to quit physics for psychology, but then I read this, barely half understanding it, but something clicked and all doubt was gone.
Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?. Nature reviews neuroscience, 11(2), 127-138.
@nabeelqu I think you just have to hold your nose and wade in. Here's a review article I liked: https://t.co/AmJ1fWI1Ck In my head, the main piece is that life itself is a Markov blanket tuned to minimize free energy (meaning surprise in the information theory sense). Whether this works
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Here is the list of references from 1 through 29: 1. The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? - Friston, K. (Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2010) 2. Active inference as a theory of sentient behavior - Pezzulo, G., Parr, T., & Friston, K. (Biological Psychology, 2024)
@IsomorphicPhi Friston, K. (2010). Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: A unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 127–138. https://t.co/n2C4Anvzpc
@mcleod_jace @darwintojesus Friston (2010) The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? The brain minimizes surprise, not truth. It’s about predicting inputs—not representing the world as it is. https://t.co/ZtHevTKpbx
@nabeelqu I think you just have to hold your nose and wade in. Here's a review article I liked: https://t.co/AmJ1fWI1Ck In my head, the main piece is that life itself is a Markov blanket tuned to minimize free energy (meaning surprise in the information theory sense). Whether this works
#11 Friston K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience,11, 127–138 (j'ai pas tout compris mais l'idée générale est vraiment chouette)
RT @sespa5investiga: Uno de los artículos más importantes en neurociencia: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Revi…
Uno de los artículos más importantes en neurociencia: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience https://t.co/a4QjV8OcOQ
www.nature.com/articles/nrn... The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? by Karl Friston
RT @johnsonmxe: @QiaochuYuan The papers people are recommending are pretty canonical; the Bayesian Mechanics one especially Friston’s orig…
@QiaochuYuan The papers people are recommending are pretty canonical; the Bayesian Mechanics one especially Friston’s original paper has some gems also; honestly I’d recommend skimming the first 3 pages of Friston’s then digging into Bayesian Mechanics https://t.co/JVLyXIAqVY
RT @uapdog: #Science is catching up to #Kant. For easily accessible papers which verify the distinction between Neumenon and Phenomenon; Go…
این مبحث رو هیچ وقت نتونستم کامل بفهمم The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Adaptive agents must occupy a limited repertoire of states and therefore minimize the long-term average of surprise associated with sensory exchanges with the world. Minimizing surprise
این مبحث رو هیچ وقت نتونستم کامل بفهمم The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? -Adaptive agents must occupy a limited repertoire of states and therefore minimize the long-term average of surprise associated with sensory exchanges with the world. Minimizing surprise
The free-energy principle A unified brain theory․pdf https://t.co/lHZrf22Qze
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#Science is catching up to #Kant. For easily accessible papers which verify the distinction between Neumenon and Phenomenon; Google the following: Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 11(2), 127-138. Friston, Karl. https://t.co/Gg8P62YlqH
Also wo kann man für Karl Fristons Paper "The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?" sehen, ob das Wissenschaftssystem nun wahr oder unwahr attachiert hat? Mit aktuell 6788 Zitationen sind Variation und Selektion zwar evident, aber mit welchem Wahrheitswert denn nun? 3/5 https://t.co/NByikTaqun
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? https://t.co/vwXOiv60bZ
RT @BrockMcKean: @Aleph0Tech The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? https://t.co/vVy7bu4eYM "Active Inference is the free ener…
@Aleph0Tech The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? https://t.co/vVy7bu4eYM "Active Inference is the free energy principle of the brain applied to action." https://t.co/kxmBWwvbIg
RT @unaiaso: Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?. Nature reviews neuroscience, 11(2), 127-138.
Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?. Nature reviews neuroscience, 11(2), 127-138.
@dnsmnhasret Dikkat! Çok da gizli olmayan reklam içeriyor! Şuradan başlanabilir: Friston, K. The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience. (Türkçe kaynak için: Bu düşüncenin bir özetinin de yer alacağı kitabım umarım birkaç aya çıkacaktır.
「 」内が正確な引用ではなかったが、Friston 2010 The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? の how adaptive systems resist a natural tendency to disorder.のa natural tendency to disorderは「entropyが増大すること」ですよね。
Dicho de otra forma, nuestra conciencia no es más que una agregación de cogniciones delimitadas por el no cumplimiento de nuestras predicciones https://t.co/6jE00h7snt
@A_Aspuru_Guzik @GaryMarcus @NaveenGRao @HarvardCCB Not sure if I am enlightening the debate here, but https://t.co/7APNKgiZZH
RT @adamoprogresso: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience https://t.co/ZfVX1yWvMZ
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience https://t.co/ZfVX1yWvMZ
Friston, K. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nat Rev Neurosci, 11(2), 127–138. #Relevance #DeepLearning #USA #Network @Safracatz @oraclepartners @OracleComms $ORCL https://t.co/2SmAgisvnb
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Friston, K.: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 11(2), 127–138 (2010). https://t.co/XtbctZ61YL @satyanadella @Microsoft $MSFT #Insight https://t.co/Mk05S8PRXQ
@atalayhakan8 @revue https://t.co/1KsDcvvIf3
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience https://t.co/4ZHoN9ZwhI
@jealcalat @PsicolibriDR @PxbloBS No se si sabré "más" como dice @jealcalat (comentario que agradezco), lo que si sé que a mi estos dos artículo me ayudaron a comprender el fenómeno: 1. Teoría: https://t.co/6jE00hp3M3 2. Caso aplicado con distintas soluciones: https://t.co/uDEEO3WeKP
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience https://t.co/slxv0jYgPS
Yet again: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? https://t.co/JGJVjcNjWt
@FroehlichMarcel @mjdramstead In principle FEP could embrace dynamical systems, e.g. this paper: p.g. 8 "The implicit use of priors to induce dynamical instability also provides a key connection to dynamical systems theory approaches to the brain..." https://t.co/9f9Xn9Cb8K
@ole_b_peters are you familiar with Karl Friston's work on Free Energy Theory? https://t.co/AmJ1fWHtMM Would be curious to have your perspective on it. How does ergodic theory inform a critique of Friston? Or Friston's critique of expectation and utility theory?
@DoqxaScott @Plinz @RJsnda @SimsYStuart @interintel @IntuitMachine @bitking69 @Numenta @danieldennett @j2bryson @keithfrankish @NikosTzagarakis And Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle. This is his best paper that I’ve found. https://t.co/cxdYUTPXQD
@metadiogenes @NeuroPolarbear @mjdramstead @chazfirestone This one! https://t.co/vM439fbUWg "The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?" 2009/2010 The OG paper, for me at least: I was on the fence to quit physics for psychology, but then I read this, barely half understanding it, but something clicked and all doubt was gone.
The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? | Nature Reviews Neuroscience https://t.co/3fRueVBBbK
@SARUN0RI その通りだと思うけど、そういう議論はFristonっていう天才がもう何年もしていて理論も積み上がってる。多分自分で考えるよりこの人の論文読めるように頑張る方が理解が進むと思う https://t.co/07CnXve84K
@bradpwyble I don't have the answer, but I think that Friston talks about it with the Mountain Car example on page 9 of https://t.co/qIKIVZcvgt.