References

Works cited on this site, with a DOI link for each article.

1. Biehl, M., Pollock, F. A., & Kanai, R. (2021). A technical critique of some parts of the free energy principle. Entropy, 23(3), 293. doi.org/10.3390/e23030293

   Used for: Critique of the technical derivation in Friston (2013).

2. Brosschot, J. F., Verkuil, B., & Thayer, J. F. (2016). The default response to uncertainty and the importance of perceived safety in anxiety and stress: an evolution-theoretical perspective. Journal of Anxiety Disorders. doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2016.04.012

   Used for: The stress response stays engaged while safety is uncertain.

3. Fitz, N. S., et al. (2019). Batching smartphone notifications can improve well-being. Computers in Human Behavior. doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.016

   Used for: Batched notifications improved well-being. No notifications raised anxiety and fear of missing out.

4. Miller, S. M. (1979). Controllability and human stress: method, evidence and theory. Behaviour Research and Therapy. doi.org/10.1016/0005-7967(79)90001-9

   Used for: Control over an aversive event lowers arousal.

5. Cohen, M. A., Cavanagh, P., Chun, M. M., & Nakayama, K. (2012). The attentional requirements of consciousness. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2012.06.013

   Used for: Attention is necessary but not sufficient for awareness.

6. Damasio, A., & Carvalho, G. B. (2013). The nature of feelings: evolutionary and neurobiological origins. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. doi.org/10.1038/nrn3403

   Used for: Feelings are mental experiences of body states and part of life regulation.

7. Damasio, A., & Damasio, H. (2016). Exploring the concept of homeostasis and considering its implications for economics. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 126, 125-129. doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2015.12.003

   Used for: The valence of a feeling commands the attention of the organism’s owner.

8. Damasio, A., & Damasio, H. (2022). Feelings are the source of consciousness. Neural Computation. doi.org/10.1162/neco_a_01521

   Used for: A continuous flow of homeostatic feelings as the source of consciousness.

9. Friston, K. (2013). Life as we know it. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 10(86), 20130475. doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2013.0475

   Used for: The Markov blanket applied to living systems.

10. Kirchhoff, M. D., et al. (2018). The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2017.0792

    Used for: Nested boundaries that need not coincide with the body.

11. Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D., & Graepel, T. (2013). Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1218772110

    Used for: Facebook Likes predict sensitive personal attributes.

12. Marchetti, G. (2012). Against the view that consciousness and attention are fully dissociable. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 36. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00036

    Used for: Varieties of attention and consciousness. Basis of the attention and awareness chart.

13. Noah, S., & Mangun, G. R. (2020). Recent evidence that attention is necessary, but not sufficient, for conscious perception. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14030

    Used for: Review of recent evidence for the same view.

14. Pearl, J. (1988). Probabilistic reasoning in intelligent systems: networks of plausible inference. Morgan Kaufmann. Book.

    Used for: Original definition of the Markov blanket for graphical models.

15. Smith, R. G. (1980). The Contract Net Protocol: high-level communication and control in a distributed problem solver. IEEE Transactions on Computers. doi.org/10.1109/TC.1980.1675516

    Used for: The announce, bid and award exchange used for matching.

16. Davis, R., & Smith, R. G. (1983). Negotiation as a metaphor for distributed problem solving. Artificial Intelligence, 20(1). doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(83)90015-2

    Used for: Extends the Contract Net Protocol to negotiation between agents.

17. Vandekerckhove, M., & Panksepp, J. (2011). A neurocognitive theory of higher mental emergence: from anoetic affective experiences to noetic knowledge and autonoetic awareness. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2011.04.001

    Used for: The anoetic, noetic and autonoetic levels of awareness.

18. Youyou, W., Kosinski, M., & Stillwell, D. (2015). Computer-based personality judgments are more accurate than those made by humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1418680112

    Used for: Computer predictions from Likes outperform friends’ ratings.