4 papers
Intrinsic Computational Functionalism and Simulated Consciousness
Ryota Kanai, Shuqin Ma
A common objection to artificial or simulated consciousness is that a simulated brain is no more conscious than simulated water is wet. We address this from the perspective of Intr…
Canonical Functionalism: Defining Functional Structure without Observer-Relative Semantic Maps
Ryota Kanai, Shuqin Ma
Computational functionalism about consciousness is often criticized for relying on observer-relative interpretations of physical systems. This paper proposes a mathematical refinem…
Prior preferences in active inference agents: soft, hard, and goal shaping
Filippo Torresan, Ryota Kanai, Manuel Baltieri
Active inference proposes expected free energy as an objective for planning and decision-making to adequately balance exploitative and explorative drives in learning agents. The ex…
Active inference for action-unaware agents
Filippo Torresan, Keisuke Suzuki, Ryota Kanai +1
Active inference is a formal approach to study cognition based on the notion that adaptive agents can be seen as engaging in a process of approximate Bayesian inference, via the mi…