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FREE ENERGY / ACTIVE INFERENCE

System notes

Every living system is a prediction machine that minimizes surprise (free energy) by updating its internal model or changing the world through action.

Active inference unifies perception and action as two modes of the same inference process: perception updates the model, action updates the world.

The Free Energy Principle subsumes perception, action, metabolism, and evolution under a single framework: natural selection is long-term free energy minimization across generations.

Active inference is the information-theoretic completion of non-equilibrium thermodynamics: if life is a dissipative structure maintaining its boundary, perception and action are the informational modes of that maintenance.

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Every living system is a prediction machine that minimizes surprise (free energy) by updating its internal model or changing the world through action.
sources: shannon-1948, wiener-1948, ashby-1956
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Active inference unifies perception and action as two modes of the same inference process: perception updates the model, action updates the world.
sources: friston-2010, wiener-1948, ashby-1956
system
The Free Energy Principle subsumes perception, action, metabolism, and evolution under a single framework: natural selection is long-term free energy minimization across generations.
sources: darwin-1859, prigogine-1977, england-2013
system
Active inference is the information-theoretic completion of non-equilibrium thermodynamics: if life is a dissipative structure maintaining its boundary, perception and action are the informational modes of that maintenance.
sources: prigogine-1977, schrodinger-1944, england-2013
speculative
The brain operates near criticality, producing neural avalanches with power-law distributions, which maximizes sensitivity and dynamic range rather than minimizing surprise.
sources: bak-1987, kauffman-1993
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The Free Energy Principle may be unfalsifiable because any observed behavior can be redescribed as minimizing some free energy functional after the fact.
sources: godel-1931, turing-1936
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