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Surfing Uncertainty - Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (Paperback)
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Surfing Uncertainty - Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind (Paperback)
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List price R675
Loot Price R573
Discovery Miles 5 730
You Save R102 (15%)
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How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as
ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas,
theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these
non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An
answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the
busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial
intelligence, and robotics. In this groundbreaking work,
philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores exciting
new theories from these fields that reveal minds like ours to be
prediction machines - devices that have evolved to anticipate the
incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. These
predictions then initiate actions that structure our worlds and
alter the very things we need to engage and predict. Clark takes us
on a journey in discovering the circular causal flows and the
self-structuring of the environment that define "the predictive
brain." What emerges is a bold, new, cutting-edge vision that
reveals the brain as our driving force in the daily surf through
the waves of sensory stimulation.
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