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What Remains Open","url":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/convergence-what-remains-open","register":"oip_protocol","tags":["OIP","convergence","philosophy","systems-theory","catalogue"],"posted_at":"2026-07-04T06:18:36.022Z","updated_at":"2026-07-04T07:36:22.067Z","body":"## The Claim\nFive questions remain open in the convergence catalogue.\n\n## Definitions\nFEP claims self-organizing systems minimize variational free energy.\nActive inference minimizes free energy through perception and action.\nCriticality is the boundary between order and chaos.\nEmergence is new regularities at higher levels of organization.\nLeast action states nature extremizes action.\nPhysical laws are mathematical regularities governing the universe.\nNecessary means derivable with no alternative.\nContingent means dependent on alterable conditions.\nBranching is hierarchical splitting of transport networks.\nFractal is a pattern repeating at every scale.\nOptimization is finding the best solution under constraints.\nSelection is differential retention of heritable variation.\nTeleology is directedness or purpose in nature.\nLagrangian is a function describing system dynamics.\nReductionism claims higher-level phenomena reduce to lower-level laws.\nOptimal transport is efficient allocation across a network.\nScale invariance is symmetry under rescaling.\nComputational irreducibility means no shortcut predicts the outcome.\nAnsatz is an assumed starting form.\nWBE refers to West, Brown, and Enquist.\n\n## The Logic\n1. 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