Are we predictive engines? Perils, prospects, and the puzzle of the porous perceiver
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The target article sketched and explored a mechanism (action-oriented predictive processing) most plausibly associated with core forms of cortical processing. In assessing the attractions and pitfalls of the proposal we should keep that element distinct from larger, though interlocking, issues concerning the nature of adaptive organization in general.
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A motive itself can be conceived of as being set to expect a particular input, along the lines proposed in predictive coding theory.
“A motive itself can be conceived of as being set to expect a particular input, along the lines proposed in predictive coding theory (Von Holst and Mittelstaedt, 1950; Friston, 2012; Clark, 2013).”
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- Authors
- Clark, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Clark, Andy
- ORCID
- Clark, Andy
- Venue
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2013-05-10
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 233-253
- ISSN
- 0140-525X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-1825
- OpenAlex
- W2312203572
- Cited by
- 158
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 24 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 36 · 2015: 18 · 2014: 8 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 11.46
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Licence
- Locations
- Behavioral and Brain Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- University of Oxford
- University of Edinburgh
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Free Will and Agency
- Keywords
- predictive processing, adaptive organizations, cortical processing, perception
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Brain, Cognition, Humans, Perception, Cognitive Science
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