Life, mind, agency: why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution

Veit, W. & Browning, H.ORCID logo (2022). Life, mind, agency: why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 45, e214. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000115
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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.
Item Type Article
Copyright holders © The Author(s), 2022.
Departments LSE > Academic Departments > Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
DOI 10.1017/S0140525X22000115
Date Deposited 13 Oct 2022
Acceptance Date 19 Jan 2022
URI https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116984

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