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Nature Neurosci., 2(1), 79-87.\"\n  ],\n  \"dual\": \"None intrinsic — the dual would be a system that maximizes surprise (actively seeks chaos), which is pathological.\",\n  \"falsifier\": \"An adaptive agent that provably does not reduce prediction error (or its bound) over time, yet survives and adapts comparably to predictive agents; or evidence that the free energy formalism cannot be operationalized with independent parameters.\",\n  \"rival_frame\": \"FEP is unfalsifiable. Because any behavior can be described as minimizing some free energy functional post hoc, the principle predicts nothing independently. It is a mathematical tautology dressed as a theory — the Ptolemaic epicycles of neuroscience. Predictive coding is real and useful; the FEP as grand unification is not.\",\n  \"independence_check\": \"MODERATE. Helmholtz (19th c. physiology) originated perception-as-inference from optics and eye movement studies. 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