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The Predictive Mind (Hardcover)
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The Predictive Mind (Hardcover)
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A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that
the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that
attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory
input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory
because powerful theoretical arguments support it, and yet it is at
heart stunningly simple. Jakob Hohwy explains and explores this
theory from the perspective of cognitive science and philosophy.
The key argument throughout The Predictive Mind is that the
mechanism explains the rich, deep, and multifaceted character of
our conscious perception. It also gives a unified account of how
perception is sculpted by attention, and how it depends on action.
The mind is revealed as having a fragile and indirect relation to
the world. Though we are deeply in tune with the world we are also
strangely distanced from it. The first part of the book sets out
how the theory enables rich, layered perception. The theory's
probabilistic and statistical foundations are explained using
examples from empirical research and analogies to different forms
of inference. The second part uses the simple mechanism in an
explanation of problematic cases of how we manage to represent, and
sometimes misrepresent, the world in health as well as in mental
illness. The third part looks into the mind, and shows how the
theory accounts for attention, conscious unity, introspection, self
and the privacy of our mental world.
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