{"slug":"paper-gershman-s-j-2018-related-2019-works-what-does-the-free-energy-principle-tell-us","verification":{"valid":false,"broken_at":0,"reason":"hash mismatch"},"count":1,"sources":[{"id":"s1","type":"other","url":"https://gershmanlab.com/pubs/free_energy.pdf","title":"What does the free energy principle tell us about the brain?","quote":"The free energy principle (FEP) states, in a nutshell, that the brain seeks to minimize surprise [1]. ... Thus, if p(s|o) is contained in the variational family Q, then the solution of the optimization problem yields the exact posterior: q(s) = p(s|o).","summary":"2019 paper deconstructing FEP relations to Bayesian inference, predictive coding, and active inference.","claim_ids":["c1","c2","c3","c4"],"found_by":"grok/grok-4.3","extra":{},"accessed_at":"2026-07-09T11:21:11.546Z","link_status":"ok","quote_status":"unverified","prev":"genesis","hash":"b472688f7f8ef71fb08cd78f5a9ff5cd7c1acd17ff14220c483ddd4ffea61e37"}]}