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The predictive mind / Jakob Hohwy

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013Edition: 1. edDescription: IX, 282 S. : Ill., graph. Darst. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780199682737
  • 9780199686735
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: The predictive mind. Online-Ausgabe Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014. 1 online resourceDDC classification:
  • 612.8233 23
RVK: RVK: CC 5630LOC classification:
  • QP360.5
Summary: A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments support it, and yet it is at heart stunningly simple. Jakob Hohwy explains and explores this theory from the perspective of cognitive science and philosophy. The key argument throughout The Predictive Mind is that the mechanism explains the rich, deep, and multifaceted character of our conscious perception. It also gives a unified account of how perception is sculpted by attention, and how it depends on action. The mind is revealed as having a fragile and indirect relation to the world. Though we are deeply in tune with the world we are also strangely distanced from it. The first part of the book sets out how the theory enables rich, layered perception. The theory's probabilistic and statistical foundations are explained using examples from empirical research and analogies to different forms of inference. The second part uses the simple mechanism in an explanation of problematic cases of how we manage to represent, and sometimes misrepresent, the world in health as well as in mental illness. The third part looks into the mind, and shows how the theory accounts for attention, conscious unity, introspection, self and the privacy of our mental world. --Call number: Grundsignatur: 2025 A 244PPN: PPN: 768004659
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Freihandbestand ausleihbar Bibliothek Campus Süd psych 4 Lesesaal Geisteswissenschaften (LSG) 2025 A 244 Checked out 02.07.2025 54006002090
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