Constant Axel, Clark Andy, Kirchhoff Michael, Friston Karl J
Charles Perkins Centre The University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.
Culture, Mind, and Brain Program McGill University Montreal Quebec Canada.
Mind Lang. 2022 Jun;37(3):373-394. doi: 10.1111/mila.12330. Epub 2020 Dec 2.
Cognitive niche construction is the process whereby organisms create and maintain cause-effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world. Active inference and predictive processing in cognitive science assume that organisms embody predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world optimized by standard cognitive functions (e.g., perception, action, learning). This paper presents an active inference formulation that views cognitive niche construction as a cognitive function aimed at optimizing organisms' generative models. We call that process of optimization extended active inference.
认知生态位构建是生物体创建并维持其生态位的因果模型，以此作为影响适应性行为指南的过程。延展心智理论认为认知过程超出大脑范围，涵盖世界的可预测状态。认知科学中的主动推理和预测处理假定生物体体现了通过标准认知功能（如感知、行动、学习）优化的世界预测（即生成）模型。本文提出了一种主动推理公式，将认知生态位构建视为旨在优化生物体生成模型的认知功能。我们将这种优化过程称为延展主动推理。
