Spatiotemporal constraints of causality Blanket closure emerges from localized interactions between temporally separable subsystems

Authors
Publication date 29-09-2022
Journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Article number e197
Volume | Issue number 45
Pages (from-to) 39-40
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract

In this commentary, I first acknowledge points of common ground with the target article by Bruineberg and colleagues. Then, I consider how certain ambiguities could be resolved by considering spatiotemporal constraints on causality. In particular I show how blanket closure emerges from localized interactions between temporally separable subsystems, and how this points to valuable directions of future research. Finally, I close with a process note discussing the allegorical implications of the authors' creative title.

Document type Comment/Letter to the editor
Note Comment on: J. Bruineberg, K. Dołęgab, J. Dewhurstc, M. Baltieri (2021) The Emperor’s New Markov Blankets. In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 45, e183.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22000620
Other links https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21002351 https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85138971476
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