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Karl Friston: Is The Brain A Statistical Organ? The Free Energy Principle & Active Inference

Mind-Body Solution

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The Problem With Markov Blankets That Wander Around

There are lots of people working on that at the moment. One email exchange about this week is from a gentleman called Jeff Beck, who's taken on the very deep challenge of considering Markov blankets that wander around. So one interesting aspect of a simple definition of a Markov blanket is that it depends upon a probability distribution that exists over a non-trivial amount of time. But if you think of something like a candle flame that is moving and furthermore the constituents, the molecules and the ions that constitute the plasma that is the surface of the flame, is it fair to say that the flame has a Markov Blanket given all its constituent molecules i.e. other small scale Mark

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