ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2016
Life and Understanding: The Origins of "Understanding" in Self-Organizing Nervous Systems.
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- The QBIT Theory of Consciousness: Information, Correlation, and Coherence.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Article
- Editorial: Understanding in the human and the machine.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- The constrained disorder principle defines living organisms and provides a method for correcting disturbed biological systems.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2022Article
- Frontopolar Cortex Specializes for Manipulation of Structured Information.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022Article
- Markov blankets in the brain.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- A Dynamic Systems Framework for Gender/Sex Development: From Sensory Input in Infancy to Subjective Certainty in Toddlerhood.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism.Synthese · 2021Article
- Understanding and Synergy: A Single Concept at Different Levels of Analysis?Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Review
- Evolutionary Advantages of Stimulus-Driven EEG Phase Transitions in the Upper Cortical Layers.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Situational Understanding in the Human and the Machine.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Energy Homeostasis Principle: A Naturalistic Approach to Explain the Emergence of Behavior.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Predictive Neuronal Adaptation as a Basis for Consciousness.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- On the emergence of cognition: from catalytic closure to neuroglial closure.Journal of biological physics · 2020Article
- Markov blankets, information geometry and stochastic thermodynamics.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020Article
- On Markov blankets and hierarchical self-organisation.Journal of theoretical biology · 2020Article
- An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness: Combining Integrated Information and Global Neuronal Workspace Theories With the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference Framework; Toward Solving the Hard Problem and Characterizing Agentic Causation.Frontiers in artificial intelligence · 2020Article
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Abstract
This article is motivated by a formulation of biotic self-organization in Friston (2013), where the emergence of "life" in coupled material entities (e.g., macromolecules) was predicated on bounded subsets that maintain a degree of statistical independence from the rest of the network. Boundary elements in such systems constitute a
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