The Free Energy Principle with Dr. Maxwell Ramstead

Talk of Today by Sam Barton

Jun 5, 202002:48:41Technology

The Free Energy Principle is a formal description of how life resist entropy across scales by minimising surprise. Surprise here being an information-theoretic view of how unlikely a particular sensory state of an organi...

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