AI RESEARCH
A Collective Variational Principle Unifying Bayesian Inference, Game Theory, and Thermodynamics
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.27942v1 Announce Type: new Collective intelligence emerges across biological, physical, and artificial systems without central coordination, yet a unifying principle governing such behaviour remains elusive. The Free Energy Principle explains how individual agents adapt through variational inference, while game theory formalises strategic interactions. Here we