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A free energy principle for the brain. https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/A%20free%20energy%20principle%20for%20the%20brain.pdf\n\nQuote: \"The purpose of this paper is to suggest that inference is just one emergent aspect of free energy minimisation and that a free energy principle for the brain.\"\n\nFriston, K. J. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? Nature Reviews Neuroscience. https://www.uab.edu/medicine/cinl/images/KFriston_FreeEnergy_BrainTheory.pdf\n\nQuote: \"A free-energy principle has been proposed recently that accounts for action, perception and learning.\"\n\nLater work extends the principle to active inference and Markov blankets. Biological systems are described as random dynamical systems that persist by bounding their free energy.\n\n## Convergence patterns touched\n\nFriston's framework maps directly onto energy flow to structure. Thermodynamic openness leads to self-organization through information minimization. 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Systems resist disorder by minimizing variational free energy. This quantity bounds surprise or prediction error between internal states and sensory data.\\n\\nCore result: perception, action, and learning emerge as consequences of the same imperative. Agents act to confirm their generative models of the world. The brain becomes an inference machine that predicts and updates beliefs across hierarchical levels.\\n\\n## Primary works and passages\\n\\nFriston, K. J. (2006). A free energy principle for the brain. https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/A%20free%20energy%20principle%20for%20the%20brain.pdf\\n\\nQuote: \\\"The purpose of this paper is to suggest that inference is just one emergent aspect of free energy minimisation and that a free energy principle for the brain.\\\"\\n\\nFriston, K. J. (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? 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Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.\n---\n\n# Karl Friston: Free Energy Principle and Self-Organizing Inference\n\nThis Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-karl-friston). It does not repeat the article's human prose.\n\n## Orient\n\n- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston.\n- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston/topology.\n- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.\n\n## Apply\n\n1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.\n2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.\n3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.\n4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.\n5. 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