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Two Routes to Interoceptive Prioritisation: Dissociating Likelihood Precision and Preference Reweighting in Active Inference
St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra +6
An embodied agent must prioritise among competing bodily needs. In active inference, it can respond to an urgent need by increasing the precision of information about that need or…
Inferring Affective Consciousness in an Artificial Agent: A Case Study
Mark Solms, St John Grimbly, Bruce Bassett +7
Creatures that display 'hedonic place preference behaviour' are thought by many scientists to experience feelings, on the assumption that their attraction to pleasure-producing sub…
Interoceptive Attention as Dynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent
St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra +7
Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others. Any fixed-budget system…
Intention Inference Under Execution Noise: Separating Aleatoric and Epistemic Uncertainty in Social Dilemmas
Kival Mahadew, Jonathan Shock
In noisy social dilemmas, intended actions are stochastically corrupted before execution, so an observed defection may reflect hostile intent or action error. Standard Markov Decis…