The Rhys Show

#88 Andy Clark: How Brains Model The World

Jul 1, 2021

57:06

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Is It a Bias, or a Binding?

05:19

What's the Difference Between Fore and EAS?

05:21

Is There a New Kind of Science to Understand Mind and Consciousness?

03:11

Introduction

2min

The Through Line That Binds All Your Work Together

2min

What Is Enembodied Cognition?

4min

What's the Difference Between Fore and EAS?

5min

Is There a Self in the World?

3min

Is There a New Kind of Science to Understand Mind and Consciousness?

3min

I Love Predictive Processing

5min

What Is Surprisal?

2min

Is It Important to Know What's Out There?

3min

10.

Is It a Bias, or a Binding?

5min

11.

Creating Models in a World of Complexity

3min

12.

How Do Meams Live in Brains?

2min

13.

How to Reduce Prediction Error Using Alcohol and Certain Drugs

2min

14.

Are You Taking Ino the Integral Over?

4min

15.

Psychitocon, Is It a Top Down Model of the World?

4min

16.

Are There Any Kinds of Examples of Them That Will Not Require Our Attention?

3min

17.

Is There a Place Like, a Recommendation for Listeners?

2min

18.

Is Google Glass Overrated or Underrated?

3min

Andy Clark is a British philosopher and a Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He’s written some great books on humans as cyborgs, extended cognition, and most recently Surfing Uncertainty, on predictive processing. We chat about how brains model the world. Job opportunity with Andy: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/jobs/research-fellow-xscape-ref-6023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark https://www.roote.co/ https://patreon.com/rhyslindmark https://twitter.com/RhysLindmark