Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model, a process known as self-evidencing.

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• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal, thereby gathering evidence for its own generative model.quote0.935
  Opening sentence defining self-evidencing.
• Any system that persists must minimise surprisal.claim0.884
  Foundational claim derived from the Free Energy Principle, setting up self-evidencing.
• Self-evidencing is not only unimpaired but improved after emptiness realisation, as the pruned model is more parsimonious without loss of accuracyclaim0.846
  Addresses the concern that emptiness realisation might undermine adaptive functioning
• Self-evidencing may continue unimpeded after this transition, grounded in structural realism about causal regularities, while the ontological commitment to a bounded self is relinquished.claim0.817
  Post-realisation functioning of the agent.
• What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist (and be recognizable by third-person investigations) despite such change?question0.810
  Addresses the problem of identity across brain/body remodeling.
• The remaining ambiguity is whether self-referential processing drives models to claim subjective experience because it actually reflects emergent phenomenology or constitutes sophisticated simulation thereofhypothesis0.807
  The open question the paper cannot resolve with behavioral evidence alone; frames the agenda for mechanistic follow-up
• What are the invariants that enable a Self to persist and remain recognizable despite drastic biological remodeling?question0.805
  Drives investigation of memory, identity, and continuity across metamorphosis and regeneration.
• One dimension of self-evidencing is provably impossible: evidencing the boundary that would constitute the agent as an entity separate from their environment.claim0.805
  Central thesis of the paper.