Agency and Self in a Universe of Self-Evidencing

The concept of self, tied to the idea of agency and autonomy, is crucial. The free energy principle, when viewed as a metaphysical concept, suggests that self-evidencing defines the boundaries of the self, leading to a position where the existence of real selves may be questioned. In this perspective, causation and inference become minimal, based on statistical relationships and the presence of Markov blankets ubiquitous for modeling different entities.