Philosophy, Psychology & Informatics Group (PPIG)
Mark Miller: Still Happily Entangled
We are in the midst of an exciting paradigm shift in cognitive and computational neuroscience. Researchers today are increasingly describing the human brain as a multi-level prediction engine. The now well known ‘Predictive Processing’ framework, one possible version of this story, has proven itself capable of elucidating and integrating various information processing strategies that underlie perception, reasoning, and action. But how, if at all, do feelings, emotions and moods fit into this emerging picture? The fit, so we have been arguing, is both profound and potentially transformative of the framework. For this PPIG event, we will be discussing some of my recent research with Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein and Erik Rietveld on this topic.
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