The statistical mechanics of felt uncertainty under active inference. (8th May 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Solms, Mark
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 46(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-05-08
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X22002783
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: Convincing narratives are not confabulations. Presumably they "feel right" to decision-making agents because the probabilities they assign intuitively (i.e., implicitly) to potential outcomes are plausible. Can we render explicit the calculations that would be performed by a decision-making agent to evaluate the plausibility of competing narratives? And if we can, what, exactly, makes a narrative "feel right" to an agent?