Applying the Free Energy Principle to Complex Adaptive Systems

Paul B Badcock; Maxwell J D Ramstead; Zahra Sheikhbahaee; Axel Constant

doi:10.3390/e24050689

Applying the Free Energy Principle to Complex Adaptive Systems

Entropy (Basel). 2022 May 13;24(5):689. doi: 10.3390/e24050689.

Authors

Paul B Badcock^{1

2}, Maxwell J D Ramstead^{3

4}, Zahra Sheikhbahaee⁵, Axel Constant⁶

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia.
² Orygen, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia.
³ VERSES Research Lab and the Spatial Web Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 90016, USA.
⁴ Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
⁵ David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada.
⁶ Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, John Hopkins Drive, Camperdown, NSW 2006, Australia.

Abstract

The free energy principle (FEP) is a formulation of the adaptive, belief-driven behaviour of self-organizing systems that gained prominence in the early 2000s as a unified model of the brain [...].

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

ZS is supported by The Long-Term Future Fund, provided by the Centre for Effective Altruism. AC is supported by the Australian Laureate Fellowship project, A Philosophy of Medicine for the 21st Century (Ref: FL170100160), and by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council doctoral fellowship (Ref: 752–2019-0065).