I think this question mainly points towards the weird interaction of this with objectives and goals.
If we set the survival of offspring as the goal, then when we die, we will have no power over the future. This is the same thing as us having max entropy or chaos over the future. So yeah escaping death = minimising free energy with respect to goals that require action in the future.
When we minimise the external free energy, we do it over all future time and not only our current timestep.
We don’t only care about the universe until our current point in time, but we do so for all the future. We’re trying to align our model of the world so that all potentialtimelines have as little external chaos in them as possible. (Incidentally, this is the same thing as minimising the number of potential timelines.)
Escaping death = minimise free energy?
I think this question mainly points towards the weird interaction of this with objectives and goals.
If we set the survival of offspring as the goal, then when we die, we will have no power over the future. This is the same thing as us having max entropy or chaos over the future. So yeah escaping death = minimising free energy with respect to goals that require action in the future.
When we minimise the external free energy, we do it over all future time and not only our current timestep.
We don’t only care about the universe until our current point in time, but we do so for all the future. We’re trying to align our model of the world so that all potential timelines have as little external chaos in them as possible. (Incidentally, this is the same thing as minimising the number of potential timelines.)