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Principles like least action that produce efficient forms in nature, contributing to simplicity and good shape.
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- Simplicity and Inner Calmassociated_withThe property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
- free energyrelated_toThermodynamic potential ΔF = ΔE − TΔS; domain walls form if ΔF < 0
- principle of least actionassociated_withA foundational principle in physics that nature follows the path of minimal action, linked to simplicity and inner calm.
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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.
- Decision-making rule in active inference.
- Reformulation of FEP in quantum information theory terms; the primary formal apparatus of the paper
- Minimizing expected free energy for planning, decision-making, and action selection.
- Jaynes' principle that systems maximize entropy under constraints.