The Predictive Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Predictive Mind write by Jakob Hohwy. This book was released on 2013-11. The Predictive Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jakob Hohwy explores a new theory in neuroscience: the idea that the brain is essentially a hypothesis-testing mechanism that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions about sensory input. He explains the rich and multifaceted character of our conscious perception, and argues that the mind has a fragile, indirect relation to the world.
The Mind
The Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mind write by E. Bruce Goldstein. This book was released on 2020-09-01. The Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. The mind encompasses everything we experience, and these experiences are created by the brain--often without our awareness. Experience is private; we can't know the minds of others. But we also don't know what is happening in our own minds. In this book, E. Bruce Goldstein offers an accessible and engaging account of the mind and its connection to the brain. He takes as his starting point two central questions--what is the mind? and what is consciousness?--and leads readers through topics that range from conceptions of the mind in popular culture to the wiring system of the brain. Throughout, he draws on the latest research, explaining its significance and relevance.
Surfing Uncertainty
Surfing Uncertainty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surfing Uncertainty write by Andy Clark. This book was released on 2016. Surfing Uncertainty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence are revealing minds like ours as predictive minds, forever trying to guess the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. In this up-to-the-minute treatment, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores new ways of thinking about perception, action, and the embodied mind.
The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity
The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity write by Joaquín M. Fuster. This book was released on 2013-08-29. The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Joaquín M. Fuster is an eminent cognitive neuroscientist whose research over the last five decades has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the neural structures underlying cognition and behaviour. This book provides his view on the eternal question of whether we have free will. Based on his seminal work on the functions of the prefrontal cortex in decision-making, planning, creativity, working memory, and language, Professor Fuster argues that the liberty or freedom to choose between alternatives is a function of the cerebral cortex, under prefrontal control, in its reciprocal interaction with the environment. Freedom is therefore inseparable from that circular relationship. The Neuroscience of Freedom and Creativity is a fascinating inquiry into the cerebral foundation of our ability to choose between alternative actions and to freely lead creative plans to their goal.
Radical Enactivism
Radical Enactivism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Enactivism write by Richard Menary. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Radical Enactivism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This collection is a much-needed remedy to the confusion about which varieties of enactivism are robust yet viable rejections of traditional representationalism approaches to cognitivism and which are not. Hutto's paper is the pivot around which the expert commentators, enactivists and non-enactivists alike, sketch out the implications of enactivism for a wide variety of issues: perception, emotion, the theory of content, cognition, development, social interaction, and more. The inclusion of thoughtful replies from Hutto gives the volume a further degree of depth and integration often lacking in collections of essays. Anyone interested in assessing the current cutting-edge developments in the embodied and situated sciences of the mind will want to read this book."Ron Chrisley, University of Sussex, UK
