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Information in the free energy principle of cognition

Information im Free Energy Principle
Authors: Kriegleder, Moritz Fabian;

Information in the free energy principle of cognition

Abstract

In this thesis, I provide an overview of the free energy principle of cognition and the central role that information plays in modelling inference in neuronal systems. Understanding free energy as an informational measure of uncertainty about perceptions helps to clarify the explanatory power of this framework. By relating the free energy principle to the used computational methods and the history of ideas that it is built on, I reinterpret free energy as a relational quantity that we use to describe cognitive processes from the outside. I continue my argument by discussing enactivism and embodied cognition as theories of subjective experience. Linking the ideas of free energy and enactivism, I explore the possibilities and limits of the free energy principle of cognition as a computational model of subjective experience. The goal of this thesis is to clarify the philosophical concepts such as neurophenomenology, the relation between observer and observed, and first-person models to bridge the gap between computational and philosophical approaches to describe experience. I motivate how free energy could potentially be used in computational phenomenology with a relational interpretation of information, contrasting recent arguments about the incompatibility of free energy and enactivism. By understanding information as a relational quantity between cognitive systems and the modeller, we can go beyond the reductionist perspective of information as a description of states of physical systems. In the conclusion, I highlight the importance of how and why we use information as a core concept to model cognitive systems and its central role in the description of subjective experience.

In dieser Arbeit gebe ich einen Überblick über das Free Energy Principle in der Kognitionswissenschaft und die zentrale Rolle, die Information in der Modellierung von Inferenz in neuroyalen Systemen spielt. Ein philosophisches Verständnis von Free Energy als Informationsmaß der Unsicherheit von Wahrnehmung verdeutlicht das erklärende Potential der Theorie. Ich verbinde die mathematischen Methoden mit der Ideengeschichte um Free Energy als relationale Größe zu beschreiben, die wir benutzen, um kognitive Prozesse von außen zu modellieren. Weiter diskutiere ich Enaktivismus und Embodied Cognition als Theorien von subjektiver Erfahrung. Im Spannungsfeld von Free Energy und Enaktvismus analysiere ich die Möglichkeiten und Limitierungen vom Free Energy Principle als mathematisches Modell von subjektiver Erfahrung. Das Ziel der Arbeit besteht darin, die philosophischen Konzepte zu identifizieren, die eine Brücke zwischen quantitativen und philosophischen Aspekten bauen können, um subjektive Erfahrung zu beschreiben. Dabei befasse ich mich im speziellen mit Neurophänomenologie, der Relation zwischen Beobachter und Beobachtetem und Modellen aus der First- Person-Perspektive. Dies könnte den Weg ebnen das Free Energy Principle zu einer Computerphänomenologie zu erweitern, die eine mathematische Beschreibung von phänomenologischen Observablen ermöglicht. In der conclusio erläutere ich die Wichtigkeit des Informationsbegriffs in Modellen von kognitiven Systemen and die zentrale Rolle, die Information in der Beschreibung von subjektiver Erfahrung spielt.

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