Strange things, statespace representation, and participatory realism - Comment on “Path Integrals, Particular Kinds, and Strange Things.” by Friston et al

I discuss the latest formulation of the Free Energy Principle as described by Friston, Karl, Lancelot Da Costa, Dalton A. R. Sakthivadivel, Conor Heins, Grigorios A. Pavliotis, Maxwell Ramstead, and Thomas Parr. 2023. “Path Integrals, Particular Kinds, and Strange Things.”. In particular, I acknowledge the progress entailed by the explicit path integral formulation of the article. However, I argue that this feature still does not allow the representation of the creation of meaning or the construction of "adjacent possibles" by biological / cognitive agents due to the statespace embedding of the theory