The Seductive Allure of Cargo Cult Computationalism
Micah Allen · 2022
Bruineberg and colleagues report a striking confusion, in which the formal Bayesian notion of a “Markov Blanket” has been frequently misunderstood and misapplied to phenomena of mind and life. I argue that misappropriation of formal concepts is pervasive in the “predictive processing” literature, and echo Richard Feynman in suggesting how we might resist the allure of cargo cult computationalism.