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Kate Nave

@kathrynnave.eurosky.social

° Visiting Scientist, The University of Göttingen ° Book: A Drive to Survive http://bit.ly/3CQP9EZ ° Purposiveness, autonomy, agency ° CogSci, Philosophy, and Theoretical Biology ° Former science & technology journalist

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Kate NaveSep 23, 2026

Absolute Units: The metabolic basis of the experiential self

Commentary on Seth (2025): Unity is intrinsic to being both an experiencing and an embodied subject. Computational accounts of consciousness, being observer-relative, cannot account for this unity. The thermodynamics of life can but, contra Seth’s suggestion, the free energy principle fails to capture the distinctive metabolic interdependencies by virtue of which a living system constitutes itself as a unified perspective on the world.

Biological NaturalismConsciousness