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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 Perception Action Loops
The word loop is crucially important there, right? And maybe the way I like to think about it is, and perhaps this is true because of technology, but we have a naive metaphor for how the brain works as kind of like there's a video camera with a computer hooked up to it. It just taking in our sense data, processing it and doing something. But no, it's really not like that at all. If you think about something like running to catch a fly ball in baseball, where you're kind of running, trying to catch this is ball, it's flying out there,. The way to do that isn't to take in all the information about the flight so far
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