Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community
This is an excellent video (though tbh I read the transcript) suggesting "that the free energy principle falls short as a unifying framework for living systems and cognition, and instead finds promise in recent concepts in philosophy and theoretical biology—how living systems must be organized in order to survive." It's not clear what question this even answers ( i's something like, what's the difference between living and non-living things?) and they don't get to it until about half way through but it's worth the journey.

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