Free Energy and the Self: An Ecological–Enactive Interpretation.
According to the free energy principle all living systems aim to minimise free energy in their sensory exchanges with the environment. Processes of free energy minimisation are thus ubiquitous in the biological world. Indeed it has been argued that even plants engage in free energy minimisation. Not...
| Publicado en: | Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 559 - 575 |
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