Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science¶
Clark, A. (2013). Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(3), 181-204.
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- Abductive Reasoning
- Perception is the substrate-furthest case worth keeping in view — it shows that abduction is not merely a deliberate epistemic practice in human institutions but a structural pattern that the nervous system itself implements when it commits to a best-guess interpretation of a noisy signal, a unification Clark (2013) makes explicit by treating perception, action, and cognition as instances of one underlying predictive-inference pattern.
This sourceSynthesis arguing that brains are hierarchical prediction-error-minimizing machines and that perception, action, and cognition are instances of one underlying predictive-inference pattern — the basis for treating perceptual inference as Bayesian abduction.
- Perception is the substrate-furthest case worth keeping in view — it shows that abduction is not merely a deliberate epistemic practice in human institutions but a structural pattern that the nervous system itself implements when it commits to a best-guess interpretation of a noisy signal, a unification Clark (2013) makes explicit by treating perception, action, and cognition as instances of one underlying predictive-inference pattern.
- Foresight
- The prediction-error machinery of the cortex is, at the level of structure, populating the same future-anticipation role that strategic foresight populates at the institutional level, a reading developed by Clark (2013) and Friston (2010).
This sourceArgues hierarchical prediction-error minimization lets bounded agents anticipate upcoming states, treating anticipatory representation as a structural feature of perception. SUPPORTS the predictive-coding-as-foresight claims (158, 162).
- The prediction-error machinery of the cortex is, at the level of structure, populating the same future-anticipation role that strategic foresight populates at the institutional level, a reading developed by Clark (2013) and Friston (2010).
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