A World Beyond Physics: The Emergence and Evolution of Life

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ an agent-based model to study the emergence of social tipping points through various feedback loops that have been previously identified to constitute an ecological approach to human behavior.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors argue that explorations of planetary intelligence, defined as the acquisition and application of collective knowledge operating at a planetary scale and integrated into the function of coupled planetary systems, can prove a useful framework for understanding possible paths of the long-term evolution of inhabited planets including future trajectories for life on Earth and predicting features of intelligentially steered planetary evolution on other worlds.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an account that grounds cognition, specifically decision-making, in an activity all organisms as autonomous systems must perform to keep themselves viable-controlling their production mechanisms.

TL;DR: It is argued that the free energy principle is best understood as offering a conceptual and mathematical analysis of the concept of existence of self-organising systems, and can uniquely serve as a regulatory principle for process theories, to ensure that process theories conforming to it enable self-supervision.