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A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life

By Kathryn Nave
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By Kathryn Nave
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How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle.

Since 2005, Karl Friston’s proposal that the principle of free energy minimization underpins the purposive behavior of living agents has evolved through thousands of publications. This principle’s central move is to formalize the drive for self-preservation in terms of a single probabilistic imperative: to survive, a living system must consistently exhibit the same “most likely” pattern of ac...

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