Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave ViewIn this jointly authored book, Kirchhoff and Kiverstein defend the controversial thesis that phenomenal consciousness is realised by more than just the brain. They argue that the mechanisms and processes that realise phenomenal consciousness can at times extend across brain, body, and the social, material, and cultural world. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein offer a state-of-the-art tour of current arguments for and against extended consciousness. They aim to persuade you that it is possible to develop and defend the thesis of extended consciousness through the increasingly influential predictive processing theory developed in cognitive neuroscience. They show how predictive processing can be given a new reading as part of a third-wave account of the extended mind. The third-wave claims that the boundaries of mind are not fixed and stable but fragile and hard-won, and always open to negotiation. It calls into question any separation of the biological from the social and cultural when thinking about the boundaries of the mind. Kirchhoff and Kiverstein show how this account of the mind finds support in predictive processing, leading them to a view of phenomenal consciousness as partially realised by patterns of cultural practice. |
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... Hohwy on the Markov blankets of the mind 4.3 Markov blankets : one or many 4.4 The metamorphosis argument 4.5 Nested Markov blankets and the boundary of the mind 4.6 Summary Note 5 Expectation and experience : a role for cultural ...
... Hohwy, Evan Thompson, Alva Noë, Dan Zahavi, Shaun Gallagher, Andreas Roepstorff, Daniel. D. Hutto, Erik Myin, Regina Fabry, Erik Rietveld, Ludger Van Dijk, Jelle Bruineberg, Thomas Parr, Maxwell Ramstead, Ensor Palacios, Micah Allen ...
... way of optimising the evidence for the prior expectations that inform its predictions (Clark 2016; Friston 2011; Hohwy 2013; Kirchhoff 2017; Seth 2015a). Predictive processing is standardly taken to imply a view of Introduction.
... Hohwy 2013; Seth 2015a). As Hohwy (2012) observes, “what gets selected for conscious perception is the hypothesis or model that, given the widest context, is currently most closely guided by the current (precise) prediction errors ...
... Hohwy ( 2016 , 2017a ) has argued along similar lines drawing on predictive processing to mount a more general attack on the extended mind . Chapter 4 develops a response to Chalmers and Hohwy by showing that there is no single , unique ...
Contents
1986 | |
1995 | |
From extended mind to extended consciousness? | |
Extended dynamic singularities models processes | |
Flexible and openended boundaries Markov blankets | |
a role for cultural practice | |
Notes | |
Extended diachronic constitution predictive processing | |
Concluding remarks | |
Index | |
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Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third-wave View Michael D. Kirchhoff,Julian Kiverstein No preview available - 2019 |
Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave View Michael D. Kirchhoff,Julian Kiverstein No preview available - 2023 |