Exploring Organism Dynamics and Non-equilibrium State Maintenance through Active Inference

Organisms strive to maintain their identity, constitution, and preservation by staying away from the non-equilibrium state. The dynamics of organisms aim to keep them in a non-equilibrium state, requiring energy and resources. Internal states of organisms are conditionally independent of their external environment, although weakly coupled through the mark off blanket interface. Active inference suggests that organisms must act to navigate their environment to stay at a non-equilibrium steady state. The concept of continual self-evidencing involves maximizing data for the internal generative model, connecting to cybernetics and the good regulator theory. This constant goal of avoiding equilibrium and staying in the non-equilibrium state ensures the preservation of identity and mortality of organisms.