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. 2022 Sep 29:45:e190.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2200022X.

Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind

Lincoln John Colling  1
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Return of the math: Markov blankets, dynamical systems theory, and the bounds of mind

Lincoln John Colling. Behav Brain Sci. .

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Bruineberg and colleagues highlight work using Markov blankets to demarcate the bounds of the mind. This echoes earlier attempts to demarcate the bounds of the mind from a dynamical systems perspective. Advocates of mechanistic explanation have challenged the dynamical approach to independently motivate the application of the formalism, a challenge that Markov blanket theorists must also meet.

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