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Karl Friston: Is Reality Inferred?

Mind-Body Solution

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The Free Energy Principle and the Purpose of Life

The free energy principle says that if a universe is settling onto an attracting set, then it must be maximizing the GMB on these attractive, interesting states. One way of reading that wrote into the bottom of the goal, that convergence to the attractive set, is in terms of a minimization of thermodynamic free energy. I think that sort of brings me to something I wanted to ask you in the very beginning, with the free energy principle in mind, what do you call is the meaning or purpose of life?

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