Life, mind, agency: why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution
Life, mind, agency: why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution
There has been much criticism of the idea that Friston's free-energy principle can unite the life and mind sciences. Here, we argue that perhaps the greatest problem for the totalizing ambitions of its proponents is a failure to recognize the importance of evolutionary dynamics and to provide a convincing adaptive story relating free-energy minimization to organismal fitness.
Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter
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Browning, Heather
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Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather
(2022)
Life, mind, agency: why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
(doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000115).
Abstract
There has been much criticism of the idea that Friston's free-energy principle can unite the life and mind sciences. Here, we argue that perhaps the greatest problem for the totalizing ambitions of its proponents is a failure to recognize the importance of evolutionary dynamics and to provide a convincing adaptive story relating free-energy minimization to organismal fitness.
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