2022-12-27 Tue 21:09 PM ![[moses_a_markov_blanket_delineates_whats_inside_the_system_from__0e0f62b2-9ec6-4e81-9735-deca4f297936.png]] > If you want to talk about something, there has to be a separation between the thing you're talking about, and everything else. And if there were no boundaries, there would be nothing. Because there would be no distinction between a thing, and not that thing. > So, statistically speaking, that distinction or that boundary is called a Markov blanket. It's just a mathematical way of separating states of some abstract world, system, organism, culture, life, cell, brain, into things that are internal to the boundary — that are owned by that system — and things that are outside the boundary — that are external to the system. > So it could be a cell, and it's milieu....Could be me, and my environment. At any scale, there has to be this division. > —Karl Friston 2017 - youtube.com/watch?v=NIu_dJGyIQI <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NIu_dJGyIQI" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>