Who tailors the blanket?
Keisuke SuzukiKatsunori MiyaharaKengo MiyazonoPublished in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
The gap between the Markov blanket and ontological boundaries arises from the former's inability to capture the dynamic process through which biological and cognitive agents actively generate their own boundaries with the environment. Active inference in the free-energy principle (FEP) framework presupposes the existence of a Markov blanket, but it is not a process that actively generates the latter.
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