Recent years have seen a blossoming of theories about the biological and physical basis of
consciousness. Good theories guide empirical research, allowing us to interpret data …

The free energy principle (FEP) states that any dynamical system can be interpreted as
performing Bayesian inference upon its surrounding environment. Although, in theory, the …

The active inference framework, and in particular its recent formulation as a partially
observable Markov decision process (POMDP), has gained increasing popularity in recent …

Several authors have made claims about the compatibility between the Free Energy
Principle (FEP) and theories of autopoiesis and enaction. Many see these theories as …

In this article, we analyse social interactions, drawing on diverse points of views, ranging
from dialectics, second-person neuroscience and enactivism to dynamical systems, active …

The free energy principle (FEP) has been presented as a unified brain theory, as a general
principle for the self-organization of biological systems, and most recently as a principle for a …

This paper introduces a variational formulation of natural selection, paying special attention
to the nature of 'things' and the way that different 'kinds' of 'things' are individuated from—and …

This paper aims to provide a theoretical framework for explaining the subjective character of
pain experience in terms of what we will call 'embodied predictive processing'. The …

Biehl et al.(2021) present some interesting observations on an early formulation of the free
energy principle. We use these observations to scaffold a discussion of the technical …

Significant efforts have been made in the past decades to understand how mental and
cognitive processes are underpinned by neural mechanisms in the brain. This paper argues …