论文标题
在地图谬论上谬论
On the map-territory fallacy fallacy
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论文摘要
本文介绍了自由能原理（FEP）使用的元理论，并检查了其在物理系统建模中的范围。我们考虑所谓的“地图谬误”和模型属性的谬误。通过证明FEP是一种一致的，以物理为灵感的推论理论，我们反驳了地图 - 遗嘱谬误与FEP的原则用法相矛盾的断言。因此，我们认为，部署地图谬论批评FEP和贝叶斯力学本身的使用构成了谬论：我们称之为{\ it Map-Territory谬论}。在这样做时，我们强调了一些关键点：FEP作为对环境建模的粒子或试剂的模型的独特性；通过与约束最大熵的原理的关系，将惯例恢复到FEP； FEP在此关系下的“ Jaynes最佳性”；最后，这种元理论方法对FEP的方式阐明了其用作正式建模工具的实用性和范围。综上所述，这些功能使FEP独特，{\ it}是统计物理学中通用系统的理想模型。
This paper presents a meta-theory of the usage of the free energy principle (FEP) and examines its scope in the modelling of physical systems. We consider the so-called `map-territory fallacy' and the fallacious reification of model properties. By showing that the FEP is a consistent, physics-inspired theory of inferences of inferences, we disprove the assertion that the map-territory fallacy contradicts the principled usage of the FEP. As such, we argue that deploying the map-territory fallacy to criticise the use of the FEP and Bayesian mechanics itself constitutes a fallacy: what we call the {\it map-territory fallacy fallacy}. In so doing, we emphasise a few key points: the uniqueness of the FEP as a model of particles or agents that model their environments; the restoration of convention to the FEP via its relation to the principle of constrained maximum entropy; the `Jaynes optimality' of the FEP under this relation; and finally, the way that this meta-theoretical approach to the FEP clarifies its utility and scope as a formal modelling tool. Taken together, these features make the FEP, uniquely, {\it the} ideal model of generic systems in statistical physics.
