| Descript |
xviii, 401 pages 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-376) and index |
|
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics |
|
Preface: Meat that predicts -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Guessing games -- I: The power of prediction -- Prediction machines: Two ways to sense the coffee ; Adopting the animal's perspective ; Learning in bootstrap heaven ; Multilevel learning ; Decoding digits ; Dealing with structure ; Predictive processing ; Signalling the news ; Predicting natural scenes ; Binocular rivalry ; Suppression and selective enhancement ; Encoding, inference, and the Bayesian brain ; Getting the gist ; Predictive processing in the brain ; Is silence golden? ; Expecting faces ; When prediction misleads ; Mind turned upside down -- Adjusting the volume (Noise, signal, attention): Signal spotting ; Hearing bing ; The delicate dance between top-down and bottom-up ; Attention, biased competition, and signal enhancement ; Sensory integration and coupling ; A taste of action ; Gaze allocation: doing what comes naturally ; Circular causation in the perception-attention-action loop ; Mutual assured misunderstanding ; Some worries about precision ; The unexpected elephant ; Some pathologies of precision ; Beyond the spotlight -- The imaginarium: Construction industries ; Simple seeing ; Cross-modal and multimodal effects ; Meta-modal effects ; Perceiving omissions ; Expectations and conscious perception ; The perceiver as imaginer ; 'Brain reading' during imagery and perception ; Inside the dream factory ; PIMMS and the past ; Towards mental time travel ; A cognitive package deal -- II: Embodying prediction -- Prediction-action machines: Staying ahead of the break ; Ticklish tales ; Forward models (finessing time) ; Optimal feedback control ; Active inference ; Simplified control ; Beyond efference copy ; Doing without cost functions ; Action-oriented predictions ; Predictive robotics ; Perception-cognition-action engines -- Precision engineering: Sculpting the flow: Double agents ; Towards maximal context-sensitivity ; Hierarchy reconsidered ; Sculpting effective connectivity ; Transient assemblies ; Understanding action ; Making mirrors ; Whodunit? ; Robot futures ; The restless, rapidly responsive, brain ; Celebrating transience -- Beyond fantasy: Expecting the world ; Controlled hallucinations and virtual realities ; The surprising scope of structured probabilistic learning ; Ready for action ; Implementing affordance competition ; Interaction-based joints in nature ; Evidentiary boundaries and the ambiguous appeal to inference ; Don't fear the demon ; Hello world ; Hallucination as uncontrolled perception ; Optimal illusions ; Safer penetration ; Who estimates the estimators? ; Gripping tales -- Expecting ourselves (Creeping up on consciousness): The space of human experience ; Warning lights ; The spiral inference and experience ; Schizophrenia and smooth pursuit eye movements ; Simulating smooth pursuit ; Disturbing the network (smooth pursuit) ; Tickling redux ; Less sense, more action? ; Disturbing the network (Sensory attenuation) ; 'Psychogenic disorders' and placebo effects ; Disturbing the network ('psychogenic' effects) ; Autism, noise, and signal ; Conscious presence ; Emotion ; Fear in the night ; A nip of the hard stuff -- III: Scaffolding prediction -- The lazy predictive brain: Surface tensions ; Productive laziness ; Ecological balance and baseball ; Embodied flow ; Frugal action-oriented prediction machines ; Mix 'n' match strategy selection ; Balancing accuracy and complexity ; Back to baseball ; Extended predictive minds ; Escape from the darkened room ; Play, novelty, and self-organized instability ; Fast, cheap, and flexible too -- Being human: Putting prediction in its place ; Reprise: self-organizing around prediction error ; Efficiency and 'The Lord's Prior' ; Chaos and spontaneous cortical activity ; Designer environments and cultural practices ; White lines ; Innovating for innovation ; Words as tools for manipulating precision ; Predicting with others ; Enacting our worlds ; Representations: breaking good? ; Prediction in the wild -- Conclusions: The future of prediction: Embodied prediction machines ; Problems, puzzles, and pitfalls -- Appendix 1: Bare Bayes -- Appendix 2: The free-energy formulation |
| Subject |
Prediction (Logic)
|
|
Metacognition
|
|
Uncertainty
|
|
Metacognition.
|
|
Prediction (Logic)
|
|
Uncertainty.
|
| Classmark |
128.2
|
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780190933210 (pbk.) |
|
