Evolution, Development and Complexity by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030000752
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

In this section, we have seen the emergence of a Markov blanket and resulting active inference in a random dynamical system. Functionally speaking, the simulated clump of macromolecules is probably most reminiscent of the various protein components that allow viruses to maintain their structure. We can see them as a metaphor for more extensive forms of biological self-organization. Intriguingly, Friston did not require a very “special” setup to arrive at this result in a bottom-up fashion; very little was required, in fact. This motivates our proposal to consider the recursive self-organization of Markov blankets into Markov blankets at higher levels. Each of these blankets and their internal states again constitute a unit of free-energy minimization (Ramstead etal. 2017; Sengupta etal. 2016). With this in mind, we will now proceed by taking free-energy minimization “for granted” and focus instead on how this process shapes function specificity for a single neuron (dendritic self-organization) and form specificity at multicellular levels (morphogenesis).

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