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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Theoretical Neuroscience

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  • The philosophical debate on cognitive system boundaries contrasts internalist and externalist views.
  • Radical cognitive science emphasizes extended, enactive, and embodied perspectives.
  • Existing frameworks struggle to reconcile internal states with external interactions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a multiscale integrationist interpretation of cognitive system boundaries.
  • To offer a compromise between internalist and externalist positions.
  • To provide a heuristic for multidisciplinary cognitive science research.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing the Markov blanket formalism from the variational free energy principle.
  • Surveying key principles of extended, enactive, and embodied cognition.
  • Developing a multiscale account integrating statistical seclusion and dynamic integration.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that statistical seclusion of internal states (via Markov boundaries) coexists with multiscale integration.
  • Showed that cognitive boundaries are context-dependent, varying with scale and explanatory interests.
  • Proposed a multiscale ontology for defining cognitive system boundaries.

Conclusions:

  • A multiscale integrationist approach reconciles internalist and externalist cognitive boundary theories.
  • The Markov blanket formalism provides a robust framework for understanding cognitive system boundaries.
  • Cognitive boundaries are not fixed but depend on the level of analysis and research goals.