Veit, Walter and Browning, Heather (2022) Life, Mind, Agency: Why Markov Blankets Fail the Test of Evolution. [Preprint]

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Abstract

There has been much criticism of the idea that Friston’s free energy principle can unite the life and mind sciences. Here, we argue that perhaps the greatest problem for the totalizing ambitions of its proponents is a failure to recognize the importance of evolutionary dynamics and to provide a convincing adaptive story relating free energy minimization to organismal fitness.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Veit, Walter wrwveit@gmail.com 0000-0001-7701-8995 Browning, Heather heather.browning@anu.edu.au 0000-0003-1554-7052
Keywords:	free energy principle; markov blankets; evolution; fitness; Friston
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Neuroscience
Depositing User:	Dr. Walter Veit
Date Deposited:	24 Jan 2022 00:36
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2023 00:59
Item ID:	20126
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory Specific Sciences > Biology > Function/Teleology Specific Sciences > Complex Systems Specific Sciences > Cognitive Science Specific Sciences > Neuroscience
Date:	2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20126

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