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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... 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 ...
... influences between the quantities involved in the minimisation of prediction error 4.1 A schematic depiction of a Markov blanket with full conditionals 4.2 The partitioning rule governing the dependencies and independencies induced by a ...
... influence of top - down expectations with incoming sensory information . In the predictive processing theory, the work of modulating the influence of.
... influence of prediction error on downstream processing is done by the precision mechanism. We show how the patterned regularities of cultural practices can make a functional contribution to weighing the precision of prediction error ...
... (1995) and Robert Wilson (1994). Active externalism is “active” in the sense of allowing elements of the environment to play “an active role in driving cognitive processes” (Clark and Chalmers 1998, p. 7). The “driving influence” they had ...
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 |