Towards Understanding Persons and Their Personalities with Cybernetic Big 5 Theory and the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference (FEP-AI) Framework

Here we review recent work attempting to combine the first principles formalism of the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference (FEP-AI) framework with a recently proposed integrative model that attempts to ground personality as control variables for goal-seeking systems: Cybernetic Big 5 Theory (CB5T). First we summarize core aspects of this synthesis, then introduce some novel (and speculative) hypotheses, and then finally consider future implications for personality modeling with FEP-AI and CB5T.