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Criticality researchers (e.g., Beggs, Markovic) maintain that criticality is a distinct principle.\n\n**Honest assessment:** This is a genuine theoretical tension. If FEP swallows criticality, it gains strength. If criticality resists absorption, FEP’s universality claim is weakened.\n\n---\n\n## Corpus map\n- C13 (Free Energy Principle): [C13 in the Encyclopedia](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c13) · [C13 in the Catalogue](/a/oip-node-c13-free-energy-active-inference)\n- C05 (Criticality): [C05 in the Encyclopedia](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c05) · [C05 in the Catalogue](/a/oip-node-c05-criticality-edge-of-chaos-power-laws)\n- Disconfirming edges: [1](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-11) · [2](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-22) · [3](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-33) · [4](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-44) · [5](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-55)\n- Catalogue hub: [Convergence Catalogue — Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article) · [The Schema](/a/oip-convergence-schema)","hero":null,"images":[],"style":{},"tags":["OIP","catalogue","disconfirming","edge"],"category":null,"model":"Fable 5 (Claude 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Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.\n---\n\n# Disconfirming Edge 2: Free Energy Principle vs Criticality\n\nThis Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/oip-disconfirming-edge-2). It does not repeat the article's human prose.\n\n## Orient\n\n- Read the machine article at /api/articles/oip-disconfirming-edge-2.\n- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/oip-disconfirming-edge-2/topology.\n- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.\n\n## Apply\n\n1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.\n2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.\n3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.\n4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.\n5. 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