Answering Schrodinger's question: A free-energy formulation

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作者：
Ramstead, Maxwell James Desormeau [1 ,2 ]
Badcock, Paul Benjamin [3 ,4 ,5 ]
Friston, Karl John [6 ]
机构：
[1] McGill Univ, Dept Philosophy, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[2] McGill Univ, Dept Psychiat, Div Social & Transcultural Psychiat, Montreal, PQ, Canada
[3] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Sch Psychol Sci, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia
[4] Univ Melbourne, Ctr Youth Mental Hlth, Melbourne, Vic 3052, Australia
[5] Natl Ctr Excellence Youth Mental Hlth, Orygen, Melbourne, Vic 3052, Australia
[6] UCL, Wellcome Trust Ctr Neuroimaging, London WC1N 3BG, England
来源：
PHYSICS OF LIFE REVIEWS | 2018年 / 24卷
基金：
英国惠康基金;
关键词：
Free energy principle; Complex adaptive systems; Evolutionary systems theory; Hierarchically mechanistic mind; Physics of the mind; Variational neuroethology; EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY; ENTROPY PRODUCTION; DYNAMICAL-SYSTEMS; BRAIN; PRINCIPLE; BEHAVIOR; UNCERTAINTY; NETWORKS; VIEW;
D O I：
10.1016/j.plrev.2017.09.001
中图分类号：
Q [生物科学];
学科分类号：
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要：
The free-energy principle (FEP) is a formal model of neuronal processes that is widely recognised in neuroscience as a unifying theory of the brain and biobehaviour. More recently, however, it has been extended beyond the brain to explain the dynamics of living systems, and their unique capacity to avoid decay. The aim of this review is to synthesise these advances with a meta-theoretical ontology of biological systems called variational neuroethology, which integrates the FEP with Tinbergen's four research questions to explain biological systems across spatial and temporal scales. We exemplify this framework by applying it to Homo sapiens, before translating variational neuroethology into a systematic research heuristic that supplies the biological, cognitive, and social sciences with a computationally tractable guide to discovery. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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