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Feb 2026
Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle How Agents Minimize Surprise Instead of Maximizing Reward
Explore Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle: a unified theory where agents minimize surprise through belief updating and action, offering an alternative foundation to reward-based reinforcement learning