{"id":8350,"date":"2018-11-19T15:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/?p=8350"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T15:45:19","slug":"boundary-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2018\/11\/19\/boundary-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Boundary issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friston draws a carefully regulated boundary<\/strong> around his inner life, guarding against intrusions, many of which seem to consist of \u201cworrying about other people.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026In Friston\u2019s mind, the universe is made up of Markov blankets inside of Markov blankets. Each of us has a Markov blanket that keeps us apart from what is not us. And within us are blankets separating organs, which contain blankets separating cells, which contain blankets separating their organelles. The blankets define how biological things exist over time and behave distinctly from one another. Without them, we\u2019re just hot gas dissipating into the ether.
\n\u2013\u00a0Shaun Raviv, The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Emphasis mine.<\/p>\n

In a recurring motif in your Neapolitan novels, Lila is beset by what you call episodes of \u201cdissolving margins.\u201d As you wrote in My Brilliant Friend<\/em>, \u201cShe said that on those occasions the outlines of people and things suddenly dissolved, disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2026 You yourself steer us toward the possibility of collaborative origins, emphasizing in Frantumaglia the \u201chighly composite, immaterial organism\u201d to be found in the pages of your novels, \u201cmade up of me who writes and of Len\u00f9, let\u2019s say, and of the many people and things she narrates.\u201d<\/p>\n

The quest for Elena Ferrante, as your emphasis on dissolving boundaries would suggest, need not entail deciphering a clear-cut process of co-authorship\u2014quite the contrary. We readers may never know the precise divisions of labor that have gone into the creation of you, the author, any more than we could identify which qualities in a child come from which parent\u2019s DNA.
\n\u2013\u00a0Rachel Donadio, Elena Ferrante: Who Is Behind the Pseudonym?<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friston draws a carefully regulated boundary around his inner life, guarding against intrusions, many of which seem to consist of \u201cworrying about other people.\u201d \u2026In Friston\u2019s mind, the universe is made up of Markov blankets inside of Markov blankets. Each of us has a Markov blanket that keeps us apart from what is not us….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8353,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8350\/revisions\/8353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}