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Volume 2 Monograph Exploration
This workspace develops a critical reconstruction of Volume 2, "The Markovian Boundary."
The monograph asks whether a Markov blanket can bear the philosophical weight assigned to it. Its central distinction is between four increasingly demanding claims: a system has a statistical boundary; it maintains causal autonomy; it possesses irreducible causal organization; it is a phenomenal subject. Volume 2 supplies promising formal resources for the first three, but their relation must be argued rather than assumed.
The resulting account treats agency as temporally extended boundary maintenance. It integrates active inference, integrated information, enactivism, process philosophy, and multiscale causal analysis while identifying precise empirical and mathematical tests.