Frank -
This should be a link to a paper which gives background on Markov Blankets:http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/home/anon/usr/ftp/cald/abstracts/04-102.html
thanks for the background and your personal stake in the topic...My (current) interest is specifically in the context of models of consciousness ala Solms and Friston:
https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~karl/NRN.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10057681/1/Friston_Paper.pdfI'm toying with the question of how Friston's application of Markov Blankets and Tononi's IIT/Phi play together in the emergence of collective consciousness.
I think in particular, the point is that MBs represent an *emergent* partitioning arising from active inferencing and how Phi perhaps can be used to recognize the emergence of higher-order self-organization in systems of systems. Unfortunately I am under(focused/disciplined/prepared) to really formalize or nail this down very well. Fortunately the ever-easier access to academic progress and the aid of LLMs to find and correlate them allows me to careen along finding serendipitous correlations among disparate thinkers/fields, even if I can't render much formal coherence out of my coalescing intuition.
I responded to Glen's response in a separate thread (now discarded) with more detail about my intuition but think it might read more like noise than signal. His point, about the distribution of POVs within the superposition of many artifacts (corpora) being precious (my words, not his) and that an LLM, even with clever prompting may be more of a "muddying" than a "clarifying".
I fear the first but hope for the latter. LLMs and their non-textual siblings may well be little more than a mudhole, not a clear wellspring.
- Steve
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