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

(2022) Life, mind, agency:why Markov blankets fail the test of evolution. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 45: e214. e214. ISSN 0140-525X

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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
Departments	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
DOI	10.1017/S0140525X22000115
Date Deposited	13 Oct 2022 23:17
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116984

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