Awesome post Will! You might like the work that stems from Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (especially it’s specialization for living systems called “active inference”). The goal is to formularize living systems as agents operating over time that are interacting with other agents and their environment (which also is an agent), with the goal of processing information in order to minimize sensory surprise. Sounds like there might be some similarities between your perspective and this communities’ perspective!
Awesome post Will! You might like the work that stems from Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (especially it’s specialization for living systems called “active inference”). The goal is to formularize living systems as agents operating over time that are interacting with other agents and their environment (which also is an agent), with the goal of processing information in order to minimize sensory surprise. Sounds like there might be some similarities between your perspective and this communities’ perspective!
Thanks Varun!
Great pointer, I'll check out their work. The information theory perspective is really interesting.