The virus and the vegan: How the brain gains inference (Ep 70)
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The Markoff Blanket
A markov blanket is just a way of partitioning the states of a universe into a system of interest. Mathematicallyt inherits from the the work of an of pearl and embasia networks. It's defined operationally in terms of what's called conditional independence. If i wanted to know how my internal states are going to change, then i only need to know the markof blanket states,. I don't need to know other parts of the universe. The mark off blanket provides a boundary that scrodinger was marvelling at in his infamous question o, what is like?
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