On Markov blankets and hierarchical self-organisation

Highlight • Computational treatment of biological self-organisation.• Biological self-organisation requires emergence of boundaries, namely Markov blankets.• Hierarchical self-organisation entails emergence of Markov blankets at multiple scale.

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