This post accompanies a YouTube published on Sept. 15, 2024, which follows up on a suggestion made by Sharif that we consider a paper by Ramstead, Friston, and Hipólito (2020).
This paper is titled “Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations.”
It is, indeed, a very FORMAL work – but I found myself getting more and more interested as I read!
- Ramstead, Maxwell J. D., Karl J. Friston, and Inês Hipólito. 2020. “Is the Free-Energy Principle a Formal Theory of Semantics? From Variational Density Dynamics to Neural and Phenotypic Representations.” Entropy 22(8):889. doi:10.3390/e22080889. (Accessed Sept. 15, 2024; Journal Page – Open Access.)
We’ll be following up in the future with more of a “deep dive” into this work.
Thanks again, Sharif, for your excellent suggestion! – AJM