Interoceptive Attention as Dynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent
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 ch
By St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra, Bruce A. Bassett, Charel van Hoof, Rowan Hodson,