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Short sentences. Cold, declarative, zero decorative wording.\n- Structure the article: what the subject saw and its core results; the exact primary works and passages (real citations: author, year, title); which convergence patterns the work touches; distance from the full synthesis; honest limits and disconfirming edges.\n- Atomize every material assertion as a claim with an honest tier. Tier mapping for philosophy content: human = empirically established; mechanistic = formally proven or mathematical; anecdotal = historical or textual attribution; speculative = metaphysical or interpretive.\n- Cite real sources only: primary works, papers, books, with exact quotes where verifiable. A claim with no source is marked unsourced.\n- State disconfirming edges plainly. 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Reference sibling articles at /a/oip-the-ladder, /a/oip-principles, /a/oip-final-testimony where they carry load.\n\nGROUNDING NOTES (from the thinker map — verify before relying on):\nFree energy principle bridges thermodynamic/information minimization to self-organizing perception-action loops and mind-like inference across biological systems\n\nENRICHMENT BRIEF (binding section logic — one ## per compound):\n{\"voice\":\"enrichment\",\"article_shape\":\"single_focus\",\"condition\":null,\"condition_key\":null,\"primary_peptide\":null,\"peptides_in_scope\":[],\"drugs_in_scope\":[],\"weight_sensitive\":false,\"stimulant_context\":false,\"breaking_down\":{\"section_title\":\"What's breaking down\",\"degenerative_why\":[],\"degenerative_layers\":[],\"note\":\"No condition profile matched — infer degeneration layers from slug/title and ledger claims.\"},\"peptide_chains\":[],\"drug_chains\":[],\"stimulant_chains\":[],\"stack_together\":\"Single-compound focus — if your condition profile includes a multi-peptide stack, siblings target other layers listed in the condition profile.\",\"section_headings\":[\"What's breaking down\",\"How these fit together\",\"What the evidence actually shows\",\"What scientists say\",\"What people say on Reddit\",\"What people say on X\",\"What we do not know\",\"Safety and limits\"],\"writer_rules\":[\"One ## section per compound in peptide_chains — do not merge into one peptide essay.\",\"Each Why section must use if-then steps from peptide_chains / drug_chains.\",\"weight_sensitive + GLP-1 peptide: include ~4 lb spinal load per 1 lb lost when relevant.\",\"stimulant_context: cover neural, gut, sleep, and non-benzo calm layers when compounds are in sc","response":"{\n  \"slug\": \"karl-friston-free-energy-principle\",\n  \"title\": \"Karl Friston: Free Energy Principle and Self-Organizing Inference\",\n  \"body\": \"## What Friston saw\\n\\nKarl Friston developed the free energy principle as a formal account of how biological systems maintain their structure. 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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