Book review: “Active inference. The free energy principle in mind, brain, and behavior” by Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo, and Karl Friston
This book is an introduction to the Free Energy Principle (FEP) and Active Inference. The FEP has been described as new paradigm with potential to unify the biological and cognitive sciences. According to the FEP, living organisms persist by minimizing their free energy (which can be variously translated as uncertainty, surprise, prediction error, or discrepancies between model and world). Active
