Free-energy pragmatics: Markov blankets don't prescribe objective ontology, and that's okay

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e198 (2022)
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Abstract

We target the ontological and epistemological ramifications of the proposed distinction between Friston and Pearl blankets. We emphasize the need for empirical testing next to computational modeling. A peculiar aspect of the free energy principle (FEP) is its purported support of radically opposed ontologies of the mind. In our view, the objective ontological aspiration itself should be rejected for a pragmatic instrumentalist view.

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