Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind - Couverture souple

Clark, Andy

 
9780190933210: Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0190933216 ISBN 13 : 9780190933210
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press Inc
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190933216
ISBN 13 
9780190933210
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
424
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9780190217013: Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0190217014 ISBN 13 :  9780190217013
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2016
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