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What's special about space?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

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Thomas Parr*
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Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, Queen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London WC1N 3AR, UK [email protected] https://tejparr.github.io/
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Abstract

This commentary suggests that, although Markov blankets may have different interpretations in different systems, these distinctions rest not upon the type of blanket, but upon the model that determines the blanket. As an example, the conditions for a model in which the Markov blanket may be interpretable as a physical (spatial) boundary are considered.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e203
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press

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