Kathryn Nave’s "A Drive to Survive" examines the Free Energy Principle (FEP) as a unified theory of life and cognition. The book critiques FEP’s definition of survival as stability or surprise minimization, arguing this concept is too general and applies trivially to simple mechanisms like the Watt governor. Nave champions bioenactivism, asserting that genuine autonomy and intentionality arise from the precarious, metabolic self-production achieved through constraint closure, distinguishing living agents from indifferent machines.

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