The Role of Predictions in Shaping Reality and Emotions

How do our minds build our worlds? One of the most important living thinkers in cognitive science and philosophy joined us with a grand new vision to explain our lived experience.

Hugely renowned in the cognitive sciences for the Extended Mind hypothesis, which explained the way in which tools seem to become part of ‘us’ many years before smartphones, laptops, and the internet made all of us feel one with our machines, philosopher Andy Clark is the leading researcher of Predictive Brain theory – the nearest thing we have to a unified science of the mind. With profound consequences for how we make sense of our selves and of society, this theory will forever reframe your understanding of the world we live in and the worlds we create.

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