{
  "id": 16675,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04232v1",
  "title": "Interoceptive Attention as Dynamic Homeostatic Prioritization in a Foraging Agent",
  "summary": "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 decide where to allocate its perceptual precision. We study this in a foraging agent that must keep several bodily needs satisfied to survive, modelled with active inference. At each step it reads its own body-state beliefs, identifies the most-needed channel, and reallocates a fixed budget of interoc",
  "authors": "St John Grimbly, Nicolas Kuske, Evert A. Boonstra, Bruce A. Bassett, Charel van Hoof, Rowan Hodson et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy,biotech",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-08-04T21:18:45.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-06T05:10:11.148Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/16675",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04232v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}