Bayesian mechanics of perceptual inference and motor control in the brain

DOI10.1007/S00422-021-00859-9zbMATH Open1457.92011arXiv2008.09927OpenAlexW3123260937MaRDI QIDQ2659634FDOQ2659634

Chang Sub Kim

Publication date: 26 March 2021

Published in: Biological Cybernetics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The free energy principle (FEP) in the neurosciences stipulates that all viable agents induce and minimize informational free energy in the brain to fit their environmental niche. In this study, we continue our effort to make the FEP a more physically principled formalism by implementing free energy minimization based on the principle of least action. We build a Bayesian mechanics (BM) by casting the formulation reported in the earlier publication (Kim 2018) to considering active inference beyond passive perception. The BM is a neural implementation of variational Bayes under the FEP in continuous time. The resulting BM is provided as an effective Hamilton's equation of motion and subject to the control signal arising from the brain's prediction errors at the proprioceptive level. To demonstrate the utility of our approach, we adopt a simple agent-based model and present a concrete numerical illustration of the brain performing recognition dynamics by integrating BM in neural phase space. Furthermore, we recapitulate the major theoretical architectures in the FEP by comparing our approach with the common state-space formulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09927

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zbMATH Keywords

limit cyclesfree energy principleBayesian mechanicscontinuous state-space modelmotor signalneural phase space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20) Biomechanics (92C10)

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