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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…
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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…
cs.AI2026
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…