The target article,“How particular is the physics of the Free Energy Principle”[1], investigates the Free Energy Principle (hereafter: FEP) in the context of linear diffusion processes, ie, Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes [2],[3]. Using this class of systems as a testbed for the FEP’s claims, the authors carefully deconstruct various assumptions and their consequences, which they claim are made (implicitly or explicitly) in the existing FEP literature, specifically in works such as [4],[5],[6]. In this commentary, I offer an additional perspective on the claims of the target article regarding the marginal flows of the conditional modes [1, Section 3.2], which afford the inferential interpretation of the FEP described in [4],[5]. Here I study system-level flows by focusing on the average flow of so-called ‘particular states’, and specifically analyze the conditions under which they license an inferential interpretation of the FEP, particularly the case …