Veissière and collaborators ground their account of culture and social norms in the free-energy principle, which postulates that the utility (or adaptive value) of an outcome is equivalent to its probability. This equivalence would mean that their account entails that complying with social norms has always adaptive value. But, this is false, because many social norms are obviously maladaptive.

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适应不良的社会规范、文化进步和自由能源原则

Veissière 和合作者将他们对文化和社会规范的解释建立在自由能原理中，该原理假定结果的效用（或适应性价值）等于其概率。这种对等意味着他们的解释意味着遵守社会规范总是具有适应性价值。但是，这是错误的，因为许多社会规范显然是不适应的。