Showing posts with label andy clark. Show all posts
Showing posts with label andy clark. Show all posts

Sunday, December 30, 2018

Let's escapes boredom with Andy Clark

This post is based on A nice surprise? Predictive processing and the active pursuit of novelty (2018), Andy Clark.

The Brain is a Prediction Machine (Predictive Processing Theory)


Basic idea: the brain is made for predicting what it would perceive. And experiments show how it is using Bayesian inference.

Let's Read: Neuropath (Bakker, 2009)

Neuropath  (Bakker 2009) is a dramatic demonstration of the eliminative materialism worldview of the author R. Scott Bakker. It's very b...