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question:does-this-mean-there-is-lifelike-behaviour-everywhere-or-is-there-something-special-about-the-markov-blankets-of-systems-we-consider-to-be-aliveDoes this mean there is lifelike behaviour everywhere or is there something special about the Markov blankets of systems we consider to be alive?
Philosophical question arising from the ubiquity of Markov blankets.
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- Conjecture about what distinguishes living from non-living systems.
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- If systems are ergodic and possess a Markov blanket, they will show lifelike behaviour.hypothesis0.879The main hypothesis the paper attempts to verify heuristically and with simulations.
- Poses challenge to definition: if every Markov blanket induces active inference, is there lifelike behavior everywhere?
- A Markov blanket is (almost) inevitable in coupled dynamical systems with short-range interactions.claim0.818Argument that physical laws inevitably produce Markov blankets.
- Question about the multiplicity of Markov blankets across scales.
- If processes are in use which have these attributes, then we may have the real possibility of a living world.hypothesis0.787Conditional statement linking the adoption of morphogenetic processes to the emergence of a living world.
- Predictive claim about the automatic spatial output of living process
- Schrödinger's analogy highlighting that life maintains order akin to a system at very low temperature.