Surfing Uncertainty

Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

AvAndy Clark

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-30
Mått:155 x 231 x 28 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190933210

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Andy Clark is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, at Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is the author of Being There: Putting Brain, Body And World Together Again (1997), Mindware (OUP, 2nd Edition 2014), Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence (OUP, 2003), and Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (OUP, 2008). His interests include artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, robotics, and the predictive mind.

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Surfing Uncertainty will be a much discussed and seminal work in the field of the philosophy of cognitive science.

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Preface: Meat That PredictsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Guessing Games Part I: The Power of PredictionChapter 1: Prediction Machines Chapter 2: Adjusting The Volume (Noise, Signal, Attention) Chapter 3: The Imaginarium Part II: Embodying PredictionChapter 4: Prediction for ActionChapter 5: Sculpting the FlowChapter 6: Engaging the worldChapter 7: Expecting Ourselves Part III: Scaffolding PredictionChapter 8: The Lazy Predictive BrainChapter 9: Being HumanChapter 10: The Future of Prediction Appendix 1: Bare BayesAppendix 2: The Free Energy FormulationReferencesIndex