Putting all this together, the picture that emerges is of a living system actively modeling its world and its body, so that the set of states that define it as a living system keep being revisited, over and over again—from the beating of my heart every second to commiserating my birthday every year. Paraphrasing Friston, the view from the FEP is of organisms gathering and modeling sensory information so as to maximize the sensory evidence for their own existence. Or, as I like to say, “I predict myself, therefore I am.”
