"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."

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• Any system that exists will appear to minimize free energy and therefore engage in active inference.claim0.851
  The reworked argument that free energy minimization is a corollary of existence, not a prerequisite.
• 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.claim0.843
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
• Minimising expected free energy ensures preferred outcomes are realised, thereby avoiding surprise on average.claim0.827
  How expected free energy links to survival.
• 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?question0.819
  Question about the relationship between adaptation, evolution, and free energy minimization.
• The most likely (i.e., best) policies minimise expected free energy.claim0.814
  Decision-making rule in active inference.
• 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.concept0.811
  Friston's key assertion resolving the tautology: existence implies free energy minimization, making inference inevitable.
• 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 learningclaim0.810
  Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem
• Any system minimizing free energy will appear to engage in implicit Bayesian inference of hidden external causes.hypothesis0.808
  Predicts that internal states encode posterior beliefs about external world through gradient descent on free energy.