Life as we know it

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 86, 2013, Pages

  Friston, Karl ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST CENTRE FOR NEUROIMAGING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active inference; Autopoiesis; Ergodicity; Free energy; Random attractor; Self organization

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BIOINFORMATICS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; INFERENCE ENGINES;

ACTIVE INFERENCE; AUTO-POIESIS; ERGODICITY; RANDOM ATTRACTORS; SELF ORGANIZATIONS;

FREE ENERGY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; BIOMEDICINE; CANONICAL VARIATES ANALYSIS; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CHEMICAL REACTION; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; DYNAMICS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOMEOSTASIS; LIFE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; VELOCITY; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL;

BIOGENESIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84893349575     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0475     Document Type: Article

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