The experience machine how our minds predict and shape reality

"A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build the world, learn from it, and sometimes deceive themselves For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that our senses determine what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and p...

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Main Author: Clark, Andy, 1957- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, [2023]
Edition: First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: Shaping experience
  • Unboxing the prediction machine
  • Psychiatry and neurology: closing the gap
  • Action as self-fulfilling prediction
  • Predicting the body
  • Interlude: The hard problem : predicting the predictors?
  • Expecting better
  • Beyond the naked brain
  • Hacking the prediction machine
  • Conclusions: Ecologies of prediction, porous to the world
  • Appendix: Some nuts and bolts.