A function for interoceptive attention and possibly affective consciousness?
In a Bayesian model constraint to an information bottleneck, focusing your computational capacity on the currently most important need at the cost of fulfilling the others supports survival.
arxiv.org/abs/2608.04232
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Interoceptive Attention as Dynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent
Biological systems must regulate competing needs under limited perceptual bandwidth, where sharpening one estimate costs the capacity to sharpen the others. Any fixed-budget system therefore has to de...
