arXiv Machine Learning By Evan Ye

From Prediction to Self: Developmental Conditions for Agency in Minimal Neural Systems

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arXiv:2606. 05605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How does a system that merely predicts the world come to distinguish its own causal influence from everything else?

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