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Karl Friston on the FEP, cognition, life, agency, enactivism

Thing in itself

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Is There a Markov Blank?

The Markov blanket means that I am not part of my environment which means the environment must be learning about me. 99.9 percent of all our sensations are caused by things like us so we need to have a mental and gerative model or internal world model says things can be caused either by me or things like me namely others. You get this notion of a shared narrative or a common ground in the sort of Thomas of some of them you know in various parts of psychology or mythology mathematically what that looks like is generalized synchronization. It's very tricky to think about it from the scale of a brain to scale of an economy to a society but at each levelwhat constitutes the evidence and what

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