A Thermodynamic Taxonomy of Doxastic States: An Active Inference Model and Experimental Paradigm.

Abstract

The Thermodynamic State-Space Model (TSSM) integrates Karl Friston's Free Energy Principle with neuroimaging constraints to model doxastic states through the lens of metabolic costs. Computational simulations demonstrate that when internal processing costs cross a critical threshold, agents exhibit dogmatic phase collapse, abandoning information foraging to prevent neural resource depletion. You can read the full analysis.