The Map Is Not the Territories

i intend to argue, did nicha, that your perception was some kind of transparent view on the world. So it's not the case friston would say, and so would althuse, and so, for that matter, would coon. None of these people are what are called ontological idealists. They very much do believe in the existence of nature. The nature of that nature is something that they might not agree on, but they definitely agree that there is something out there,. Rather than just being pure perceptions and phenomena, but nothing behind them. And those things out in the world do have patterns,  there is no reason that those patterns should conform to whatever