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. 2022 Sep 29:45:e185.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22000279.

The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism

Micah Allen  1   2   3
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The seductive allure of cargo cult computationalism

Micah Allen. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Bruineberg and colleagues report a striking confusion, in which the formal Bayesian notion of a "Markov blanket" has been frequently misunderstood and misapplied to phenomena of mind and life. I argue that misappropriation of formal concepts is pervasive in the "predictive processing" literature, and echo Richard Feynman in suggesting how we might resist the allure of cargo cult computationalism.

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  • The Emperor's New Markov Blankets.
    Bruineberg J, Dołęga K, Dewhurst J, Baltieri M. Bruineberg J, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2021 Oct 22;45:e183. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21002351. Behav Brain Sci. 2021. PMID: 34674782

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