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Maps and territories, smoke, and mirrors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

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Karl Friston*
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Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK k.friston@ucl.ac.uk
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Abstract

It is a pleasure to comment on Bruineberg et al. – who raise some interesting questions of a philosophical and technical nature. I will try to answer three questions posed by the authors. Are Pearl and Friston blankets different things? Are Markov blankets used in an ontological sense? Is there a privileged Markov blanket?

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e195
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