Autoren:	Clark, Andy
Titel:	How to knit your own markov blanket : resisting the second law with metamorphic minds
Online-Publikationsdatum:	1-Jun-2017
Erscheinungsdatum:	2017
Sprache des Dokuments:	Englisch
Zusammenfassung/Abstract:	Howhy (Hohwy 2016, Hohwy 2017) argues there is a tension between the free energy principle and leading depictions of mind as embodied, enactive, and extended (so-called ‘EEE cognition’). The tension is traced to the importance, in free energy formulations, of a conception of mind and agency that depends upon the presence of a ‘Markov blanket’ Andrey Markov demarcating the agent from the surrounding world. In what follows I show that the Markov blanket considerations do not, in fact, lead to the kinds of tension that Howhy depicts. On the contrary, they actively favour the EEE story. This is because the Markov property, as exemplified in biological agents, picks out neither a unique nor a stationary boundary. It is this multiplicity and mutability– rather than the absence of agent-environment boundaries as such - that EEE cognition celebrates.
DDC-Sachgruppe:	100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy
Veröffentlichende Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Organisationseinheit:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Veröffentlichungsort:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-626
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-566450
Version:	Published version
Publikationstyp:	Buchbeitrag
Nutzungsrechte:	CC BY-ND
Informationen zu den Nutzungsrechten:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Quelle:	Philosophy and predictive processing Metzinger, Thomas
Seitenzahl oder Artikelnummer:	41 59
Verlag:	MIND Group
Verlagsort:	Frankfurt am Main
Erscheinungsdatum:	2017
URL der Originalveröffentlichung:	http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958573031
DOI der Originalveröffentlichung:	10.15502/9783958573031
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:	JGU-Publikationen