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235 | Andy Clark on the Extended and Predictive Mind
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Prediction in Perception
It's similar to the idea of file compression. If we have a JPEG or an MPEG that there are some patterns that are repeated, so you can just assume that they keep going. And then you pay attention to the differences. And those are what we're talking about as errors in the brain case. Yes. That's certainly correct when we come back to thinking about perception and something like that is involved in action too. But it does seem like it's easier to think about that bit in the case of perception where the idea would be that I predict the current sensory flow and it's only the errors in that prediction that then need further processing.
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