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100			_aHohwy, J. _eAuthor _lEnglish _92381
245		4	_aThe Predictive Mind _c/ by J. Hohwy. _h[Electronic Resource]
260			_aNew York _b: Oxford University Press, _c2013
520			_aA new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. The theory is increasingly being used to interpret and drive experimental and theoretical studies, and it is finding its way into many other domains of research on the mind. It is the theory that the brain is a sophisticated hypothesis-testing mechanism, which is constantly involved in minimizing the error of its predictions about the sensory input it receives from the world. This mechanism is meant to explain perception and action and everything mental in between. It is an attractive theory because powerful theoretical arguments support it. It is also attractive because more and more empirical evidence is beginning to point in its favour. It has enormous unifying power and yet it can explain in detail too. This book explores this theory. It explains how the theory works and how it applies; it sets out why the theory is attractive; and it shows why and how the central ideas behind the theory profoundly change how we should conceive of perception, action, attention, and other central aspects of the mind. The central argument of the book is that the simple idea of prediction error minimization offers a surprisingly good, explanatory fit with our actual perceptual phenomenology, and that it throws new light on core, intriguing aspects of the nature of mind.
650			_aPhilosophy Of Mind _915938
650			_aPhilosophy Of Perception _915939
650			_aPhilosophy Of Science _915940
856			_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682737.001.0001 _qPDF _yClick to Access the Online Book
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