Di Paolo, Thompson & Beer (2022): Tensions between Enaction and the Free Energy Principle

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input: Write the philosophy article for the academic work "Di Paolo, E. (2022). Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle": what it establishes, its exact load-bearing passages (real quotes with page/section where verifiable), how it supports or attacks the OIP/GRAIN synthesis, which convergence patterns it evidences, and its honest limits.

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Highlights incompatibilities between FEP and autopoietic/enactive accounts of self-organization (disconfirming edge for thermodynamics-to-mind)

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  "title": "Di Paolo, Thompson & Beer (2022): Tensions between Enaction and the Free Energy Principle",
  "body": "## What the Work Establishes\nDi Paolo, Thompson, and Beer examine claims of compatibility between the Free Energy Principle (FEP) and enactive theory rooted in autopoiesis. They identify misreadings of key enactive concepts. The paper concludes that core assumptions in FEP contradict central commitments in enaction.\n\nCore results include the identification of two main tensions. FEP relies on systems reaching non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) and being defined by Markov blankets. Enaction emphasizes the historicity of sense-making, adaptivity, and agency through ongoing modulation of agent-environment couplings. These elements allow path-dependent change in parameters and constraints.\n\nThe authors argue that FEP's time-invariant NESS assumptions clash with enactive views of precarious, self-constituting agents that develop historically. Enactive sense-making also foregrounds constitutive roles of the world, challenging FEP's internalist framing.\n\n## Exact Primary Works and Passages\nThe primary work is Di Paolo, E. A., Thompson, E., & Beer, R. D. (2022). Laying down a forking path: Tensions between enaction and the free energy principle. Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, 3. https://doi.org/10