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Who tailors the blanket?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

Keisuke Suzuki Open the ORCID record for Keisuke Suzuki [Opens in a new window] ,
Katsunori Miyahara  and
Kengo Miyazono
Keisuke Suzuki
Affiliation:
Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan ksk@chain.hokudai.ac.jp https://sites.google.com/view/keisukesuzuki/ kmiyahara@chain.hokudai.ac.jp https://kmiyahara.weebly.com/
Katsunori Miyahara
Affiliation:
Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan ksk@chain.hokudai.ac.jp https://sites.google.com/view/keisukesuzuki/ kmiyahara@chain.hokudai.ac.jp https://kmiyahara.weebly.com/
Kengo Miyazono
Affiliation:
Center for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence, and Neuroscience (CHAIN), Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan ksk@chain.hokudai.ac.jp https://sites.google.com/view/keisukesuzuki/ kmiyahara@chain.hokudai.ac.jp https://kmiyahara.weebly.com/ Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0812, Japan miyazono@let.hokudai.ac.jp http://kengomiyazono.weebly.com/
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Abstract

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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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e213
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