Free energy minimisation is asymptotically equivalent to the Principle of Unitarity, driving agent and environment toward dissolution of separability

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• If the minimization of free energy is just a corollary of descent onto a global random attractor, does this mean that adaptation and evolution are just ways of describing the same thing?question0.811
  Question about the relationship between adaptation, evolution, and free energy minimization.
• Acting to optimize value and perception are two aspects of exactly the same principle: minimization of free energy.claim0.809
  Foundational claim unifying action and perception within single optimization framework.
• Minimising expected free energy specifies the optimal balance between goal-seeking and itinerant novelty-seeking behaviour.claim0.809
  Describes the exploitation-exploration trade-off.
• 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.claim0.803
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
• "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."concept0.803
  Load-bearing definition of how action and perception implement free energy minimization.
• Expected Free Energy Minimizationmethod0.803
  Minimizing expected free energy for planning, decision-making, and action selection.
• Variational Free Energy Minimizationmethod0.801
  Minimizing variational free energy for perceptual inference and learning of model parameters.
• The most likely (i.e., best) policies minimise expected free energy.claim0.799
  Decision-making rule in active inference.