The free energy principle, an influential framework in computational neuroscience and
theoretical neurobiology, starts from the assumption that living systems ensure adaptive …

Several authors have made claims about the compatibility between the Free Energy
Principle (FEP) and theories of autopoiesis and enaction. Many see these theories as …

This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for explaining the subjective character of
pain experience in terms of what we will call 'embodied predictive processing'. The …

Biological agents can act in ways that express a sensitivity to context-dependent relevance.
So far it has proven difficult to engineer this capacity for context-dependent sensitivity to …

How do intelligent agents spawn and exploit integrated processing regimes spanning brain,
body, and world? The answer may lie in the ability of the biological brain to select actions …

How the boundaries of the mind should be drawn with respect to action and the material
world is a core research question that cognitive archaeology shares with contemporary …

One of the criteria to a strong principle in natural sciences is simplicity. This paper claims
that the Free Energy Principle (FEP), by virtue of unifying particles with mind, is the simplest …

Embodied cognition—the idea that mental states and processes should be understood in
relation to one's bodily constitution and interactions with the world—remains a controversial …

It is a near consensus among materialist philosophers of mind that consciousness must
somehow be constituted by internal neural processes, even if we remain unsure quite how …

Collective intelligence, an emergent phenomenon in which a composite system of multiple
interacting agents performs at levels greater than the sum of its parts, has long compelled …