The free energy principle, an influential framework in computational neuroscience and
theoretical neurobiology, starts from the assumption that living systems ensure adaptive …

Recent advances in neuroscience have characterised brain function using mathematical
formalisms and first principles that may be usefully applied elsewhere. In this paper, we …

One of the key problems the brain faces is inferring the state of the world from a sequence of
dynamically changing stimuli, and it is not yet clear how the sensory system achieves this …

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 …

Over the past four years, models based on Neural Ordinary Differential Equations have
become state of the art in the forecasting of irregularly sampled time series. Describing the …

Persuasion is the process of changing an agent's belief distribution from a given (or
estimated) prior to a desired posterior. A common assumption in the acceptance of …

Bruineberg and colleagues' critique of Friston blankets relies on what we call the" literalist
fallacy": the assumption that in order for Friston blankets to represent real boundaries …

The principal target of this article is the reification Bruineberg et al. perceive of formalism
within the literature on the variational free energy minimisation (VFEM) framework. The …

The free energy principle (FEP) from neuroscience provides a framework called active
inference for the joint estimation and control of state space systems, subjected to colored …

In “The Emperor's New Markov Blankets”, Bruineberg and colleagues present a stimulating
treatment of developments in conceptually distinct uses of the concept of Markov blankets …