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name: thinker-karl-friston
description: Apply the Karl Friston: Free Energy Principle and Self-Organizing Inference article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Karl Friston: Free Energy Principle and Self-Organizing Inference

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-karl-friston). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Friston saw Karl 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 predic

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-karl-friston
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-karl-friston/revisions