Computational enactivism under the free energy principle
Synthese March 1, 2021 Tomasz Korbak 23 citations
AbstractIn this paper, I argue that enactivism and computationalism—two seemingly incompatible research traditions in modern cognitive science—can be fruitfully reconciled under the framework of the free energy principle (FEP). FEP holds that cognitive systems encode generative models of their niches and cognition can be understood in terms of minimizing the free energy of these models. There...