# A Drive to Survive

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- Book: [A Drive to Survive](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-nave/a-drive-to-survive) ([A Drive to Survive.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-nave/a-drive-to-survive.md))
- Authors: [Kathryn Nave](https://www.bookquiver.com/kathryn-nave)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6255-132-8
- Pages: 318
- Published: 2025-02-04
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

How the purposive behavior of living systems outstrips the constraints of the free energy principle. Since 2005, Karl Friston’s proposal that the principle of free energy minimization underpins...