Predictive minds : old problems and new challenges / edited by Manuel Curado and Steven S. Gouveia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curado, Manuel, 1967- editor.

Gouveia, Steven S., editor.

Series:

Cognitive Science and Psychology Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perception.

Consciousness.

Senses and sensation.

Psychology--Methodology.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Art and Science Inc., [2023]

Summary:

"The Predictive Processing Theory of Mind is a recent theory developed by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists about the nature and function of the brain and its role in creating the conscious mind that we humans, and perhaps some non-human animals, have. The authors that advanced those lines of research believe that there is a fundamental idea that has been overlooked in the research done about the brain until the present: that the brain is a prediction machine with the function of creating hypotheses about the causes of our sensory signals and predictions of possible future sensory signals. Moreover, the internal models of the world created this way are constantly challenged by incorporating the errors of the previous models into new models. From this point of view, the brain's work could be described as a process of making predictions about the upcoming sensory data based on its best current models of the causes of those data. This book intends to critically analyze this theory and its subsequent theoretical and empirical consequences. To achieve that, the volume brings together some of the best experts on Predictive Processing -- such as Thomas Metzinger, Wanja Wiese, or Mark Miller -- with the goal of presenting some of the advantages of this approach but also some of its caveats." -- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introductoin / Manuel Curado, Steven S. Gouveia

Key concepts of predictive processing / Wanja Wiese, Thomas Metzinger

Predictive processing and metaphysics / Arthur Schwaninger

Taking-off from primary impressions : an essay about the metaphysical constraints of predictive processing / Manuel Curado

Predictive mind, surprise and the layers of the emotional landscape / Dina Mendonça

Regulation, not perception : emotion and predictive memory / José M. Araya

Interoceptive inference : emotion-cognition interactions in the predictive brain / Mark Miller, Jelena Markovic

Predictive processing and delusions / Jorge Gonçalves

The predictive core-self and body illusions / João Fonseca

Heads, I win

tails, you lose : gambling from a predictive processing perspective / Valtteri Arstila, Jarno Tuominen and Susanne Uusitalo

Ecological in spirit? Predictive processing and the limits of direct perception / Matthew Sims

Predictive processing as a computational mechanism / Jona Förster

Method to study sets of real numbers, infinities, and infinitesimals / Miguel Pais-Vieira, Manuel Curado and Nicolás Lori

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781648897856

1648897851

OCLC:

1397570255