Why the domain fits
Clinical care involves latent-state inference, uncertain observations, action under risk, and changing preferences over health outcomes. Active Inference gives researchers a shared language for modeling those loops without reducing care to a single prediction task.
Application pattern
A domain report should separate three layers: formal models of symptoms or physiology, decision-support systems that choose information-gathering or intervention policies, and institutional workflows for accountable clinical use.
Evidence to collect next
The next pass should identify reviewed computational psychiatry papers, clinical waveform or monitoring work, active sensing use cases, and implementation repositories. Each claim should land in the citation registry before it appears on the public page.
Reference Backbone
Karl J. Friston (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/nrn2787. Christopher L. Buckley, Chang Sub Kim, Simon McGregor, Anil K. Seth (2017). The free energy principle for action and perception: A mathematical review. Journal of Mathematical Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmp.2017.09.004. Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, Karl J. Friston (2022). Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior. MIT Press. Giovanni Pezzulo, Francesco Rigoli, Karl J. Friston (2017). Active Inference, homeostatic regulation and adaptive behavioural control. Progress in Neurobiology. DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2017.08.001.