How the Brain Constructs Reality: Interview with Andy Clark
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The Predictive Brain
The book is an extended case for what you refer to as the predictive brain, or you have various terms for it. It's different from the kind of standard model of how the brain works to construct our experience that was dominant very recently and maybe even more recently than 20 years ago. Instead of doing most of the work and driving most of the way you see and feel your world, what happens is it's the differences from your predictions that then get to drive updates and changes. So suddenly you're a thing that's sitting there predicting all kinds of stuff,. The residual errors, the differences between what you were predicting and what the raw sensory evidence seems to be suggesting actually do determine what you see
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