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Geometry of Friston's active inference

@article{Biehl2018GeometryOF,
  title={Geometry of Friston's active inference},
  author={Martin Biehl},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2018},
  volume={abs/1811.08241}
}
We reconstruct Karl Friston's active inference and give a geometrical interpretation of it. 
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