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slug: oip-disconfirming-edge-variational-family-collapse
title: Disconfirming Edge — Variational Family Collapse
canonical: https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-variational-family-collapse
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# Disconfirming Edge — Variational Family Collapse

## §SELF — oip-disconfirming-edge-variational-family-collapse

**What this page is:** the edge that attacks inflated independent node counts inside the computing-physics variational cluster.
**What it explains:** free energy, Pareto-style efficiency frontiers, least action, and gradient dissipation can be coats of one family.
**Why read it:** your own collapse threshold needs an honest denominator.

### Claim under attack

"Catalogue nodes are independent if separately named."

### Counter

Independence requires **mechanism distinction**, not synonym distinction. Until mechanism distinction is shown, count the family once for independence metrics.

### Links

- [Free energy vs least action](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-free-energy-vs-least-action)
- [Convergence catalogue](/a/oip-convergence-catalogue)

