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Why not Both (but also, Neither)? Markov Blankets and the Idea of Enactive-Extended Cognition

Juan Diego Bogotá

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Abstract

Open peer commentary on the article “A Moving Boundary, a Plastic Core: A Contribution to the Third Wave of Extended-Mind Research” by Timotej Prosen. Abstract: I sympathize with Prosen’s conviction in integrating enactivism, the free-energy principle, and the extended-mind hypothesis. However, I show that he uses the concept of “boundary” ambiguously. By disambiguating it, I suggest that we can keep both Markov blankets and operational closure as ways of drawing the boundaries of a cognitive system. Nevertheless, from an enactive perspective, neither of those boundaries is a “cognitive” boundary.

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Bogotá J. D. (2022) Why not both (but also, neither)? Markov blankets and the idea of enactive-extended cognition. Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 233–235. https://constructivist.info/17/3/233

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