Andy Clark: Surfing Uncertainty | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780190933210 | Surfing Uncertainty | Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind | Buch

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Beschreibung

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.

In this groundbreaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark explores exciting new theories from these fields that reveal minds like ours to be prediction machines - devices that have evolved to anticipate the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. These predictions then initiate actions that structure our worlds and alter the very things we need to engage and predict. Clark takes us on a journey in discovering the circular causal flows and the self-structuring of the environment that define "the predictive brain." What emerges is a bold, new, cutting-edge vision that reveals the brain as our driving force in the daily surf through the waves of sensory stimulation.

Über den Autor

Andy Clark is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, at Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is the author of Being There: Putting Brain, Body And World Together Again (1997), Mindware (OUP, 2nd Edition 2014), Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence (OUP, 2003), and Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension (OUP, 2008). His interests include artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, robotics, and the predictive mind.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

Preface: Meat That Predicts

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Guessing Games

Part I: The Power of Prediction

Chapter 1: Prediction Machines

Chapter 2: Adjusting The Volume (Noise, Signal, Attention)

Chapter 3: The Imaginarium

Part II: Embodying Prediction

Chapter 4: Prediction for Action

Chapter 5: Sculpting the Flow

Chapter 6: Engaging the world

Chapter 7: Expecting Ourselves

Part III: Scaffolding Prediction

Chapter 8: The Lazy Predictive Brain

Chapter 9: Being Human

Chapter 10: The Future of Prediction

Appendix 1: Bare Bayes

Appendix 2: The Free Energy Formulation

References

Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780190933210
ISBN-10:	0190933216
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Clark, Andy
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press Inc
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	233 x 154 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Andy Clark
Erscheinungsdatum:	30.05.2019
Gewicht:	0,602 kg