Yan M Yufik

Life and Understanding: The Origins of "Understanding" in Self-Organizing Nervous Systems.

Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience December 9, 2016 Yan M Yufik, Karl Friston

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 Markov blanket; separating the internal states of a system from...