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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?

Question about the relationship between adaptation, evolution, and free energy minimization.

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Life as we know it

(2013) · Karl Friston

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Evolution and adaptation may be as inevitable as simple self-organization.
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Speculation that descent onto a global random attractor implies evolutionary free energy minimization.

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