Any system that exists will appear to minimize free energy and therefore engage in active inference.

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• Any system that exists will appear to minimize free energy and therefore engage in active inference. Furthermore, this apparently inferential or mindful behaviour is (almost) inevitable.concept0.920
  Friston's key assertion resolving the tautology: existence implies free energy minimization, making inference inevitable.
• In brief, active inference proposes that agents achieve this by optimising two complementary objective functions, a variational free energy and an expected free energy.quote0.856
  Concise statement of the core hypothesis from Section 2.
• Active inference has no random or stochastic aspects; everything changes to minimize variational free energy in accord with Hamilton's principle of least action.claim0.855
  Ontological claim about the deterministic nature of active inference agents in these simulations
• Any system minimizing free energy will appear to engage in implicit Bayesian inference of hidden external causes.hypothesis0.853
  Predicts that internal states encode posterior beliefs about external world through gradient descent on free energy.
• "A system can minimize free-energy by changing its configuration to change the way it samples the environment, or to change its expectations. These changes correspond to action and perception respectively."concept0.851
  Load-bearing definition of how action and perception implement free energy minimization.
• By minimising variational free energy, agents perform approximate Bayesian inference.claim0.839
  Describes the epistemic function of variational free energy.
• Active inference postulates that agents achieve survival by optimising two complementary objective functions, a variational free energy and an expected free energy.claim0.833
  Core claim of active inference stated in Section 2.
• Agents perceive by minimizing variational free energy to ensure model consistency with past observations and act by minimizing expected free energy to make future sensations consistent with preferences.claim0.822
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.