A Free Energy Principle for Biological Systems

This paper describes a free energy principle that tries to explain the ability of biological systems to resist a natural tendency to disorder. It appeals to circular causality of the sort found in synergetic formulations of self-organization (e.g., the slaving principle) and models of coupled dynami...

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Published inEntropy (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 14; no. 11; pp. 2100 - 2121
Main Author Karl, Friston
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 01.11.2012
Subjects
Bayesian
ergodicity
free energy
random dynamical system
self-organization
surprise
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ISSN1099-4300
1099-4300
DOI10.3390/e14112100

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