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Are you familiar with the current debate about predictive processing / free energy minimisation / active inference, driven by philosophers such as Clark & Hohwy

Are you familiar with the current debate about predictive processing / free energy minimisation / active inference, driven by philosophers such as Clark & Hohwy on the one side and the neuroscience tribe around Friston along side them?

hardmaru 9y ago
I'm familiar with the works of Andy Clark. In particular, I found parts (but not all) of "Being There" and "Supersizing the Mind" to be interesting to read, although he does ramble on sometimes. There's an interesting article called "The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark" that I can recommend reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind-expanding-ideas-of-andy-clark https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind-expan... There's an older work from Hod Lipson, that is often referenced in Clark's writing, that I also found inspirational. An old TED talk (2007) from Lipson about "Building 'self-aware' robots": https://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots#t-182210 https://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robot...
- greenpresident 9y ago
  Ha, I did not know that there had been a New Yorker profile profile of him just a few days ago. They are really jumping on the predictive processing train hard: In the same issue, there had been a profile of Metzinger [0], who plays an important role in bridging the divide between Friston's work on perception and theories of the self. I'm very curious how that line of research will turn out. My interest comes from the behavioural economics perspective on decision making. Big names (Akerlof, Kahneman, Tirole) have approached narratives as a way to cope with multiple-selves [1] but I belief that the free energy principle, when integrated with the work by Metzinger may be able to introduce a naturalistic way to ground both preferences and the development of preferences in empirical findings from neuroscience. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already-living-in-virtual-reality https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already... [1, paywalled] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2017.1286027 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2017.12...

hardmaru 9y ago

I'm familiar with the works of Andy Clark. In particular, I found parts (but not all) of "Being There" and "Supersizing the Mind" to be interesting to read, although he does ramble on sometimes. There's an interesting article called "The Mind-Expanding Ideas of Andy Clark" that I can recommend reading: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind-expanding-ideas-of-andy-clark https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/the-mind-expan... There's an older work from Hod Lipson, that is often referenced in Clark's writing, that I also found inspirational. An old TED talk (2007) from Lipson about "Building 'self-aware' robots": https://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots#t-182210 https://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robot...

greenpresident 9y ago
Ha, I did not know that there had been a New Yorker profile profile of him just a few days ago. They are really jumping on the predictive processing train hard: In the same issue, there had been a profile of Metzinger [0], who plays an important role in bridging the divide between Friston's work on perception and theories of the self. I'm very curious how that line of research will turn out. My interest comes from the behavioural economics perspective on decision making. Big names (Akerlof, Kahneman, Tirole) have approached narratives as a way to cope with multiple-selves [1] but I belief that the free energy principle, when integrated with the work by Metzinger may be able to introduce a naturalistic way to ground both preferences and the development of preferences in empirical findings from neuroscience. [0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already-living-in-virtual-reality https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/02/are-we-already... [1, paywalled] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2017.1286027 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1350178X.2017.12...