Does a Flux-Defined Markov Blanket Screen Self-Replicating Gray--Scott Spots? A Computational Test of a Blanket Condition from the Free Energy Principle

Friston's free energy principle holds that a system separated from its environment by a Markov blanket---a boundary whose states statistically screen its interior from its exterior---can be treated as performing approximate Bayesian inference, and that such blankets arise wherever coupling is short-