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THE HARD PROBLEM OF OBSERVERS - WOLFRAM & FRISTON [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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The Thing and the Observer acting by choice

Having a choice means having counterfactual beliefs about the consequences of actions./nThere is a distinction between things that can act and things that cannot./nObservers like humans can imagine counterfactual futures./nA generative model can include an observer's actions in the causes./nInformation-seeking and ambiguity-avoiding behaviors are expected in planning./nControl theory and the variation principle can explain these behaviors./nProbability distributions can be extended to include the observer's own causes./nSparsely connected things are unaware of their own actions.

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