Some creatures have acquired the capacity to include, in their generative models, the prior belief that they are free energy minimizing creatures. And if they can do that, then they will have a prior belief that the way that I will act will be to minimize my free energy. That was how you might write it down as a physicist. If you were a psychologist, all you're saying is I have the capacity to plan. What to imagine? Exactly. So that's, I think, an important distinction between very simple attracting sets and things like viruses.

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