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The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

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Micah Allen*
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Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark micah@cfin.au.dk https://www.the-ecg.org/ Cambridge Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 8AH, UK
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Abstract

Bruineberg and colleagues report a striking confusion, in which the formal Bayesian notion of a “Markov blanket” has been frequently misunderstood and misapplied to phenomena of mind and life. I argue that misappropriation of formal concepts is pervasive in the “predictive processing” literature, and echo Richard Feynman in suggesting how we might resist the allure of cargo cult computationalism.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e185
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