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Teleosemantics and the free energy principle [PDF]

, 2022
The free energy principle is notoriously difficult to understand. In this paper, we relate the principle to a framework that philosophers of biology are familiar with: Ruth Millikan’s teleosemantics.
Stephen Francis Mann, Mann, Stephen, Ross Pain, Mann, Stephen Francis, Mann, S., Pain, Ross, Pain, R.   +6 more
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Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle. [PDF]

Neurosci Biobehav Rev, 2021
Ramstead MJD, Hesp C, Tschantz A, Smith R, Constant A, Friston K.   +5 more
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Affect-Logic, Embodiment, Synergetics, and the Free Energy Principle: New Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Schizophrenia. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel), 2021
This theoretical paper explores the affect-logic approach to schizophrenia in light of the general complexity theories of cognition: embodied cognition, Haken’s synergetics, and Friston’s free energy principle.
Ciompi L, Tschacher W.
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How particular is the physics of the free energy principle?

Phys Life Rev, 2022
Aguilera M, Millidge B, Tschantz A, Buckley CL.   +3 more
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Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Free Energy Principle in Biology [PDF]

, 2021
According to the free energy principle, life is an “inevitable and emergent property of any (ergodic) random dynamical system at non-equilibrium steady state that possesses a Markov blanket” (Friston 2013).
Palacios, Patricia, Colombo, Matteo, Patricia Palacios, Matteo Colombo   +3 more
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Minimal Self-Models and the Free Energy Principle

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013
The term "minimal phenomenal selfhood" describes the basic, pre-reflective experience of being a self (Blanke & Metzinger, 2009). Theoretical accounts of the minimal self have long recognized the importance and the ambivalence of the body ...
Jakub eLimanowski, Felix eBlankenburg, Felix eBlankenburg, Felix eBlankenburg   +3 more
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Reinforcement learning or active inference? [PDF]

, 2009
This paper questions the need for reinforcement learning or control theory when optimising behaviour. We show that it is fairly simple to teach an agent complicated and adaptive behaviours using a free-energy formulation of perception.
Friston, K., Kiebel, SJ, Jean Daunizeau, Friston, KJ, Kiebel, S J, Karl J. Friston, Stefan J. Kiebel, Daunizeau, J, Kiebel, S.J., Friston, K J, Friston Karl J., Daunizeau Jean, Stefan J Kiebel, Daunizeau, J., Karl J Friston, Friston, K.J., Kiebel Stefan J., Kiebel, S.   +17 more
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Examining the Continuity between Life and Mind: Is There a Continuity between Autopoietic Intentionality and Representationality?

Philosophies, 2021
A weak version of the life-mind continuity thesis entails that every living system also has a basic mind (with a non-representational form of intentionality).
Wanja Wiese, Karl J. Friston
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The Energy Homeostasis Principle: A Naturalistic Approach to Explain the Emergence of Behavior

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2022
It is still elusive to explain the emergence of behavior and understanding based on its neural mechanisms. One renowned proposal is the Free Energy Principle (FEP), which uses an information-theoretic framework derived from thermodynamic considerations ...
Sergio Vicencio-Jimenez, Mario Villalobos, Pedro E. Maldonado, Rodrigo C. Vergara   +3 more
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A free energy principle for generic quantum systems [PDF]

, 2021
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) states that under suitable conditions of weak coupling, random dynamical systems with sufficient degrees of freedom will behave so as to minimize an upper bound, formalized as a variational free energy, on surprisal (a.k.a.
Levin, Michael, Glazebrook, James F., Friston, Karl, Fields, Chris, Glazebrook, James F, James F. Glazebrook, Michael Levin, Chris Fields, Karl Friston   +8 more
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