Lesions to active, sensory, or internal states caused rapid dispersion and structural disintegration of the Markov blanket.

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• Lesioning active, sensory, or internal states causes rapid structural disintegration and loss of spatial organization.finding0.858
  Demonstrates autopoietic maintenance: Markov blanket integrity is necessary for preserving internal state configuration.
• The principal Markov blanket identified by spectral graph theory formed a clustered structure with internal subsystems enshrouded by sensory and active subsystems.finding0.783
  Visual and quantitative observation of Markov blanket emergence.
• A Markov blanket is (almost) inevitable in coupled dynamical systems with short-range interactions.claim0.780
  Argument that physical laws inevitably produce Markov blankets.
• Under the Markov blanket assumption together with NESS, a generalised synchrony appears, such that the dynamics of internal states can be cast as performing inference over external states via minimisation of variational free energy.claim0.768
  Key theoretical claim linking active inference to physics in Section 2.
• Any ergodic random dynamical system that possesses a Markov blanket will appear to actively maintain its structural and dynamical integrity.claim0.755
  The lemma that leads to the main claim.
• Minimum entropy Markov blankets may characterize biological systems.claim0.750
  Conjecture about what distinguishes living from non-living systems.
• Does this mean there is lifelike behaviour everywhere or is there something special about the Markov blankets of systems we consider to be alive?question0.741
  Philosophical question arising from the ubiquity of Markov blankets.
• Life requires only a boundary (Markov blanket), ergodicity, active inference capacity, and autopoiesis—not reproduction or DNA.claim0.739
  Reframes definition of life focusing on dynamical self-organization rather than genetic reproduction.