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Causal surgery under a Markov blanket.

Daniel YonPhilip Robert Corlett
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2022)
Bruineberg et al. provide compelling clarity on the roles Markov blankets could (and perhaps should) play in the study of life and mind. However, here we draw attention to a further role blankets might play: as a hypothesis about cognition itself. People and other animals may use blanket-like representations to model the boundary between themselves and their worlds.
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