From Prediction to Self: Developmental Conditions for Agency in Minimal Neural Systems

arXiv:2606.05605 · cs.LG, cs.NE · Submitted 2026-08-20 · Read on arXiv

Evan Ye

cs.LG, cs.NE

Submitted: 2026-08-20

Updated: 2026-08-21

Comments: 27 pages, 6 figures

Code: https://github.com/yefeifei-tech/prediction-to-self

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

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• Accuracy — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Linear probe — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Predictive Coding — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Exponential Moving Average (EMA) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Gated Recurrent Unit — 1× in this paper
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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