scholarly journals Extended Predictive Minds: do Markov Blankets Matter?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Facchin
Keyword(s):  
Markov Blankets

scholarly journals Parcels and particles: Markov blankets in the brain

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-76
Author(s):  
Karl J. Friston ◽  
Erik D. Fagerholm ◽  
Tahereh S. Zarghami ◽  
Thomas Parr ◽  
Inês Hipólito ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Message Passing ◽  
Effective Connectivity ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
Functional Integration ◽  
Brain Networks ◽  
Functional Anatomy ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Dynamical Instability ◽  
Self Organised Criticality ◽  
Markov Blankets

At the inception of human brain mapping, two principles of functional anatomy underwrote most conceptions – and analyses – of distributed brain responses: namely functional segregation and integration. There are currently two main approaches to characterising functional integration. The first is a mechanistic modelling of connectomics in terms of directed effective connectivity that mediates neuronal message passing and dynamics on neuronal circuits. The second phenomenological approach usually characterises undirected functional connectivity (i.e., measurable correlations), in terms of intrinsic brain networks, self-organised criticality, dynamical instability, etc. This paper describes a treatment of effective connectivity that speaks to the emergence of intrinsic brain networks and critical dynamics. It is predicated on the notion of Markov blankets that play a fundamental role in the self-organisation of far from equilibrium systems. Using the apparatus of the renormalisation group, we show that much of the phenomenology found in network neuroscience is an emergent property of a particular partition of neuronal states, over progressively coarser scales. As such, it offers a way of linking dynamics on directed graphs to the phenomenology of intrinsic brain networks.

Markov blankets are general physical interaction surfaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 109-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Fields ◽  
Antonino Marcianò
Keyword(s):  
Physical Interaction ◽  
General Physical ◽  
Markov Blankets

Feature Selection Using Approximate Multivariate Markov Blankets

2016 ◽  
pp. 114-125
Author(s):  
Rafael Arias-Michel ◽  
Miguel García-Torres ◽  
Christian Schaerer ◽  
Federico Divina
Keyword(s):  
Feature Selection ◽  
Markov Blankets

Are Markov Blankets Real and Does It Matter?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Menary ◽  
Alexander James Gillett
Keyword(s):  
Markov Blankets

scholarly journals The Emperor Has No Blanket!

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Raja ◽  
Edward Baggs ◽  
Anthony Chemero ◽  
Michael Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Markov Blankets

While we applaud Bruineberg et al.’s analysis of the differences between Markov blankets and Friston blankets, we think it is not carried out to its ultimate consequences. There are reasons to think that, once Friston blankets are accepted as a theoretical construct, they do not do the work proponents of FEP attribute to them. The emperor is indeed naked.

scholarly journals Causal surgery under a Markov blanket

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Yon ◽  
Philip R. Corlett
Keyword(s):  
Markov Blanket ◽  
Markov Blankets

Bruineberg et al provide compelling clarity on the roles Markov blankets could (and perhaps should) play in the study of life and mind. However, here we draw attention to a further role blankets might play: as a hypothesis about cognition itself. People and other animals may use blanket-like representations to model the boundary between themselves and their worlds.

scholarly journals Learning Markov Blankets From Multiple Interventional Data Sets

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 2005-2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui Yu ◽  
Lin Liu ◽  
Jiuyong Li
Keyword(s):  
Data Sets ◽  
Markov Blankets
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