Yogi JaegerExcellent take-down of the so-called Free-Energy Principle. Not a principle of "thingness." Not a principle of life. But simply a modeling framework that may (or may not) be useful for modeling the expectations of anticipatory systems.
Life beyond the free energy principle: how to survive without invariance - Dialectical Systems
Since emerging onto the stage as ‘a theory of cortical responses’ in 2005[1], Karl Friston’s free energy principle has undergone numerous costume changes. In its most modest dress, it appears as nothing more than a tautological truism[2]: in its most eye-catching ensemble it is “an existential dyad from which everything of interest about life and […]
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