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Boundaries and borders gone! But life goes on

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

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Kathryn Nave*
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Department of Philosophy, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9AD, UK Kathryn.nave1@gmail.com
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Abstract

Unlike machines, living systems are distinguished by the continual destruction and regeneration of their boundaries and other components. Stable Markov blankets may be a real feature of the world, or they may be merely a construction of particular models, but they are neither a feature of organisms nor of any model that can capture the necessary conditions of their existence.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e202
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