The Maximum Entropy Principle Is the Free Energy Principle

Free energy is equal to some expected energy minus the entropy minimizing free energy now becomes a maximum entropy principle. Any system that individuates itself from the rest of the universe must have dynamics that looks as if it's doing a gradient flow on physicists free energy, he says. This means we can understand neural dynamics such as message passing and bleed propagation which are necessarily part of any system that manages to maintain itself as individuated or separate from its embedding space right? So then can we use that as as a benchmark to as a criteria for life that any system that resists entropy and uses that principle is a living system  i know that's a very touchy subject and probably probably general