Empowerment -- an Introduction

摘要: Is it better for you to own a corkscrew or not? If asked, as human being would likely say “yes”, but more importantly, are somehow able make this decision. You decide this, even if your current acute problems task do not include opening wine bottle. Similarly, is also unlikely that evaluated several possible trajectories life could take and looked at them with without corkscrew, then measured survival reproductive fitness in each. When you, cognitive agent, made decision, were relying on behavioural “proxy”, an internal motivation abstracts the problem of evaluating decision impact overall life, regard some simple function. One example be idea curiosity, urging act so experience new sensations learn about environment. On average, should lead richer models world, which give chance reaching ultimate goals reproduction.