Friston 2010: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)

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• The free energy principle can serve as a unifying hypothesis for investigating the developmental origins of self-awarenessclaim0.805
  Broad theoretical claim connecting the model's success to the FEP as a unifying framework
• Free Energy Principleframework0.798
  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.
• 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 learningclaim0.790
  Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem
• Does The Free Energy Principle Adequately Explain Morphogenesisquestion0.769
• The marginal free energy currently stands as the most biologically plausible approximation.claim0.765
  Evaluation of various free energy approximations, Section 4.2.
• Helmholtz's Neural Energy Principleconcept0.764
  Historical idea statistically reformulated to furnish model of perceptual inference and learning.
• Quantum Free Energy Principle (qFEP)framework0.759
  Reformulation of FEP in quantum information theory terms; the primary formal apparatus of the paper
• Can The Free Energy Principle Be Extended Toquestion0.758