Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics
Wiktor Rorot, Tomasz Korbak, Piotr Litwin, Marcin Miłkowski · 2022
*** This paper has now been published at Behavioral and Brain Sciences, please cite the published version: Rorot, W., Korbak, T., Litwin, P., & Miłkowski, M. (2022). Enough blanket metaphysics, time for data-driven heuristics. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E206. doi:10.1017/S0140525X22000280 ***Bruineberg and colleagues criticisms’ have been received but downplayed in the FEP literature. We strengthen their points, arguing that the Friston blanket discovery, even if tractable, requires a full formal description of the system of interest at the outset. Hence, blanket metaphysics is futile, and we postulate that researchers should turn back to heuristic uses of Pearl blankets.