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Alexander L. Francis

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Immersion as inference: An active inference account of induced realities and its relation to the two-competitor model

Laura Renz, Kyra L. GauthierDickey, Jonas Vibell, Alexander L. Francis, Farah I. Corona-Strauss, Daniel J Strauss

This paper develops an active inference framework to explain immersion in virtual and augmented realities by modeling induced realities as competing generative models.

bioRxiv · Nov 4, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience