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Dr. Karl Friston: Why Health Care Practitioners Should Learn About Artificial Intelligence

Smarter Not Harder

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Is There a Markov Blanket?

There are different kinds of things where a thing is something that possesses a Markov blanket. That would quite naturally be understood as being able to support the kind of consciousness we enjoy. So that notion underwrites the sort of inference of learning, the active interpretation of free energy minimization from the point of view of a phenotype.

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