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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 1st, 2019
- Pages: 424
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.10in - 6.10in - 1.10in - 1.30lb
- EAN: 9780190933210
- Categories: • Movements - Humanism• Mind & Body• Neuroscience
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What people are saying
Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός. Hon Professor @sheffielduni. Mind, consciousness, illusionism, cog-sci, Ελλάδα. Podcast: https://t.co/kyMR0mRBqm
@EvoPhilPaul That's a big question! It's such a broad field and there's so much work that it's hard to single anything out. The big absence from the book is a chapter on predictive processing. Andy Clark's book Surfing Uncertainty would fill that gap.
Such is Life!
Social norms…are entropy-minimizing devices, represented as probability distributions, that serve to make social behaviour predictable. Expectations about our own behaviour are thus simultaneously descriptive and predictive in nature. -Surfing Uncertainty Podcast by Andy Clark
Science fiction writer and foresight consultant. Canadian. Author of Stealing Worlds, Lockstep, and the Virga series. @KarlSchroeder@mastodon.social
@cascio @dylanhendricks @bruces Andy Clark wrote a book about this theory called "Surfing Uncertainty." It's a part of his general paradigm of the Extended Mind, which is way more interesting than the "brain as computer" metaphor, at least from a science fiction perspective.
Praise for this book
"This is a truly important book. It is evocatively written and reflects a truly gargantuan amount of work. It sets the stage for future debates not only about the empirical merits of Bayesian characterizations of human cognition, but also the broader philosophical picture in which such Bayesian characterizations are embedded. I predict that many of us will be reading, discussing, and analysing this book in the months and years to come." --British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
What people are saying
Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός. Hon Professor @sheffielduni. Mind, consciousness, illusionism, cog-sci, Ελλάδα. Podcast: https://t.co/kyMR0mRBqm
@EvoPhilPaul That's a big question! It's such a broad field and there's so much work that it's hard to single anything out. The big absence from the book is a chapter on predictive processing. Andy Clark's book Surfing Uncertainty would fill that gap.
Such is Life!
Social norms…are entropy-minimizing devices, represented as probability distributions, that serve to make social behaviour predictable. Expectations about our own behaviour are thus simultaneously descriptive and predictive in nature. -Surfing Uncertainty Podcast by Andy Clark