Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.

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• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal.claim0.937
  Foundational claim derived from the Free Energy Principle, setting up self-evidencing.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.claim0.935
  Foundational claim of the paper, defining self-evidencing.
• 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.concept0.801
  Friston's key assertion resolving the tautology: existence implies free energy minimization, making inference inevitable.
• Curiosity, insight, decision-making, and diverse phenomena can all be accommodated by a single imperative: minimization of expected free energy (resolution of uncertainty).claim0.793
  Central thesis of the paper unifying cognitive phenomena under one objective function
• 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.claim0.790
  Formalization of perception-action cycle integrating inference and decision-making.
• The results generalise readily to non-equilibrium systems where scaling relationships remain similar (e.g., dynamic or localised scaling).claim0.790
  Claim about broader applicability of the scaling argument
• Generative models are entailed by adaptive behavior, not explicitly encoded in brain statesclaim0.788
  Distinction from Bayesian brain: generative model is consequence of dynamics, not neural representation
• Developing a simple, precise denotational model of graphical user interfaces enables proving properties of programs and establishing objective comparisons of library abstraction levels.claim0.788
  Authors' core assertion that formal modeling of GUIs provides foundational benefits for language design and program verification.