Quick takeaways

• The choice of blankets in the FEP is based on the goal of labeling and simplifying complex systems, but the criteria for selecting significant blankets is not always explicitly addressed in the literature.

• The selection of blankets for systems in the FEP literature raises philosophical questions about the presuppositions and ontological implications of labeling and boundary detection.

• The FEP assumes that perception is a form of inference, although there are ongoing discussions on how perception can be understood without explicit Bayesian inference.

• Vicente argues that perception should not rely on prior knowledge to make sense of impoverished stimulation, advocating for an ecological psychology framework based on the lawful relationship between patterns of life and the environment.

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