The empire strikes back: Some responses to Bruineberg and colleagues
Abstract
In their target paper, Bruineberg and colleagues provide us with a timely opportunity to discuss the formal constructs and philosophical implications of the free-energy principle. I critically discuss their proposed distinction between Pearl blankets and Friston blankets. I then critically assess the distinction between inference with a model and inference within a model in light of instrumentalist approaches to science.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2021
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2112.15528
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2112.15528
- Bibcode:
- 2021arXiv211215528R
- Keywords:
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- Quantitative Biology - Neurons and Cognition;
- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics