Helmholtz's Neural Energy Principle

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• Friston 2010: The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory? (Nature Reviews Neuroscience)concept0.764
  Foundational free energy principle reference
• All neuronal processing and action selection minimize variational free energy, unifying perception, action, and learning.claim0.743
  Fundamental assertion: single imperative (free energy minimization) explains diverse cognitive and neural phenomena.
• Free Energy Principleframework0.736
  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 conservation of molecular mechanisms between neural and non-neural bioelectricity is why neuroscience tools work everywhere in the body.claim0.736
  Empirical claim about transferability of methods.
• Smolensky (1986) proposes that viewing a neural representation under a basis that is not aligned with individual neurons can reveal the interpretable distributed structure of the neural representations.quote0.733
  Load-bearing theoretical claim providing the conceptual foundation for DAS.
• 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 learningclaim0.731
  Differentiation of the thesis from Friston's FEP to avoid the rock problem
• neural substratesconcept0.729
  Brain-based physical implementations of consciousness-related functions, assumed by many ToCs to be exclusive.
• minimum energy principlesconcept0.728
  Principles like least action that produce efficient forms in nature, contributing to simplicity and good shape.