Our paper has been published in final form in *Entropy*!
https://mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/7/964"A Variational Synthesis of Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics"
Karl Friston, Daniel A. Friedman, Axel Constant, V. Bleu Knight, Chris Fields, Thomas Parr, John O. Campbell
Keywords: self-organisation; nonequilibrium; variational inference; Bayesian; particular partition; evolution; natural selection; Markov blanket; renormalisation group
Compared with the previous pre-print, we've added some discussion of applications & a numerical simulation of multiscale learning in a neural system.
This is a very exciting step towards synthesis of Active Inference & Free Energy Principle, with Ecology/Evolution/Development and Complex Systems approaches to Biology.
