Any system that persists must minimise surprisal.

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• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.quote0.937
  Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.884
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• surprisal minimizationconcept0.822
  The principle that agents must minimise prediction error (surprisal) to persist.
• surprisal minimisationconcept0.813
  The core imperative under the Free Energy Principle; systems must reduce the difference between predicted and actual sensory states.
• Curiosity, insight, decision-making, and diverse phenomena can all be accommodated by a single imperative: minimization of expected free energy (resolution of uncertainty).claim0.776
  Central thesis of the paper unifying cognitive phenomena under one objective function
• Piecemeal growth requires that certain parts of the system remain stable.claim0.776
  Justification for the backplane as a stable core while applications can change.
• Practical means must be gradual, incremental modes of change because present system is too massive and deeply embedded for revolutionary replacement.claim0.770
  Asserts that only piecemeal injection of morphogenetic sequences can realistically transform the system.
• 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.concept0.769
  Friston's key assertion resolving the tautology: existence implies free energy minimization, making inference inevitable.