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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
by 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...