Answering Schrodinger's question: A free-energy formulation

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Funding Acknowledgements

Work on this article was supported by the Wellcome Trust (K. Friston; Ref: 088130/Z/09/Z) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (M.J.D. Ramstead). We thank Jelle Bruineberg, Nabil Bouizegarene, Axel Constant, Michael Kirchhoff, Laurence Kirmayer, Noah Moss-Brender, Jonathan St-Onge, Samuel Veissiere, Ishan Walpola, and Julian Xue, for helpful discussions and comments on earlier versions of this paper. Finally, we would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for invaluable guidance in describing these ideas.