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The Free Energy Principle applies to all self-organizing systems including rocks, making it too broad; the present thesis restricts consciousness to signed evaluation in the service of learning

Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem

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Why Learning Requires Feeling
(2026) · Cameron Berg

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  • Free Energy Principle
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    A foundational variational principle from statistical physics that formalizes how self-organizing systems maintain structural integrity and adapt to their environment by minimizing free energy—a mathematical bound on surprise or prediction error. Originally developed by Karl Friston, the framework unifies action, perception, and learning as processes of active inference, where systems both update internal models of the world and act upon it to reduce the divergence between predictions and observations.

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  • Rock Problem
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    The difficulty that broad FEP formulations technically apply to rocks maintaining thermodynamic equilibrium; avoided by the present thesis

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