Only predict? Conscious experience, and the scope and limits of predictive processing

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• Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh)
• Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00
• Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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The ‘predictive processing’ framework shows great promise as a means of both understanding and integrating many of the core information processing strategies underlying perception, thought and action. But this leaves many questions unanswered. What, if anything, does this deeply probabilistic framework have to say about the nature of daily human experience and (indeed) the nature and possibility of conscious experience more generally? Can a story that posits prediction error minimization as cognitive bedrock accommodate the undoubted attractions of novelty and exploration? Is it falsifiable? What is the true scope of this story – can it really be a theory of ‘everything cognitive’?

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