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Predictive Minds: Old Problems and New Challenges

Predictive Minds: Old Problems and New Challenges

Curado, Manuel
Gouveia, Steven S.

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Series: Cognitive Science and Psychology

PhilosophyCognitionGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 1648899250
ISBN13: 9781648899256
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: Mar 6 2024
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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