Interoceptive Attention as Dynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent
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arXiv:2608.04232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others. Any fixed-budget system therefore has to decide where to allocate its perceptual precision. We study this in a foraging agent that must keep several bodily needs satisfied to survive, modelled with active inference. At each step it reads its own body-state beliefs, identifies the most-needed channel, and reallocates a fixed budget of interoceptive precision toward it, so that the same precisi
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- arXiv:2608.04232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others.
- Any fixed-budget system therefore has to decide where to allocate its perceptual precision.
- We study this in a foraging agent that must keep several bodily needs satisfied to survive, modelled with active inference.
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