The free energy principle made simpler but not too simple

K Friston, L Da Costa, N Sajid, C Heins, K Ueltzhöffer… - Physics Reports, 2023‏ - Elsevier
This paper provides a concise description of the free energy principle, starting from a
formulation of random dynamical systems in terms of a Langevin equation and ending with a …

The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle

M Kirchhoff, T Parr, E Palacios… - Journal of The …, 2018‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
This work addresses the autonomous organization of biological systems. It does so by
considering the boundaries of biological systems, from individual cells to Home sapiens, in …

Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture

SPL Veissière, A Constant, MJD Ramstead… - Behavioral and brain …, 2020‏ - cambridge.org
The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

[كتاب][B] Evolving enactivism: Basic minds meet content

DD Hutto, E Myin - 2017‏ - books.google.com
An extended argument that cognitive phenomena—perceiving, imagining, remembering—
can be best explained in terms of an interface between contentless and content-involving …

A tale of two densities: Active inference is enactive inference

MJD Ramstead, MD Kirchhoff… - Adaptive behavior, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to clarify how best to interpret some of the central constructs that
underwrite the free-energy principle (FEP)–and its corollary, active inference–in theoretical …

[HTML][HTML] Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation

MJD Ramstead, PB Badcock, KJ Friston - Physics of life reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
The free-energy principle (FEP) is a formal model of neuronal processes that is widely
recognised in neuroscience as a unifying theory of the brain and biobehaviour. More …

Sentience and the origins of consciousness: From Cartesian duality to Markovian monism

KJ Friston, W Wiese, JA Hobson - Entropy, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
This essay addresses Cartesian duality and how its implicit dialectic might be repaired using
physics and information theory. Our agenda is to describe a key distinction in the physical …

The brain and its time: intrinsic neural timescales are key for input processing

M Golesorkhi, J Gomez-Pilar, F Zilio… - Communications …, 2021‏ - nature.com
We process and integrate multiple timescales into one meaningful whole. Recent evidence
suggests that the brain displays a complex multiscale temporal organization. Different …

From cognitivism to autopoiesis: towards a computational framework for the embodied mind

M Allen, KJ Friston - Synthese, 2018‏ - Springer
Predictive processing (PP) approaches to the mind are increasingly popular in the cognitive
sciences. This surge of interest is accompanied by a proliferation of philosophical …

Homo faber Revisited: Postphenomenology and Material Engagement Theory

D Ihde, L Malafouris - Philosophy & technology, 2019‏ - Springer
Humans, more than any other species, have been altering their paths of development by
creating new material forms and by opening up to new possibilities of material engagement …