The collective should use the free energy principle as a design heuristic and a source of questions, not as a derivation that its designs are correct, because the original free energy lemma fails as stated and the definitions of a Markov blanket differ between works. Boundaries in our knowledge base should be defined by the graph (few edges crossing a cluster), not by FEP formalism.

Evidence 3 passages

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  We prove by counterexamples that the original free energy lemma, when taken at face value, is wrong.

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  various definitions of the "Markov blanket" proposed in different works are not equivalent

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  the free energy principle (FEP) is so simple that it is (almost) tautological

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