Maybe! My only point was that the comparison to Kauffman isn’t relevant, as the purportedly-ergodic things are very different in the two cases.
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Hope this will help clarify the problem
@evantthompson[...] In this treatment, we have assumed biological systems are ergodic. Clearly, this is a simplification, in that real systems are only locally ergodic...[rest of the para. is important] - Life as we know it, Friston 2013 -
Thanks, this is helpful. But I also doubt that life "is ergodic over a particular (somatic) timescale." What about grief, trauma, altered states of consciousness, conversion experiences, and all the (re)organizations resulting from them?
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To an extent, I think so. But in living systems, such historical change exists in between phases of relative conservation, which is where the FEP per se can be applied. It's not quite as grand as originally envisioned; it's sort of like mathematical cement.
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