free energy principle
Affordance – Possibility of an action on an object or environment Autopoiesis – Systems concept which entails automatic reproduction and maintenance Entropic force – Physical force that originates from thermodynamics instead of fundamental interactions Optimal control – Mathematical way of attaining a desired output from a dynamic system Adaptive system, also known as Practopoiesis – set of interacting or interdependent entities forming an integrated whole that are able to respond to environmental changes, analogous to physiological homeostasis or evolutionary adaptation in biology Surprisal – Basic quantity derived from the probability of a particular event occurring from a random variable Synergetics (Haken) – A school of thought on thermodynamics and systems phenomena developed by Hermann Haken