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3. The Naturalistic Case for Free Will: Indeterminism as an Emergent Phenomenon

books / Christian List: Why Free Will Is Real / Free will / mental causation

How could we have alternative possibilities if the world was physically deterministic? I argue that physical determinism does not rule out indeterminism at the level of agency. The distinction between determinism and indeterminism is level-specific.

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5. Diachronic Constitution and Extended Consciousness

Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein: Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing

Based on our third-wave framing of predictive processing, we argued in our previous post (4) that generative models cannot be unplugged from the world, given that action couples the agent to the environment. It is only via action in the world that the agent is able to tune and maintain …

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4. Is Perceptual Experience Controlled Hallucination?

Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein: Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing

Predictive processing is standardly combined with views of perceptual experience as the outcome of psychological processes of unconscious inference. Perceptual experience is taken to be the product of guesswork about what is out there in the external world. The brain forms its guess by a process that approximates probabilistic reasoning, …

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3. The Markov Blanketed Mind

Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein: Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing / Uncategorized

https://www.crcpress.com/Extended-Consciousness-and-Predictive-Processing-A-Third-Wave-View/Kirchhoff-Kiverstein/p/book/9781138556812 Common-sense suggests that it is perception and action that delineate a boundary for the mind. Perception is the interface where the world impacts on the mind, and action is where agents make a causal difference in the world. Chalmers (2008, 2019) suggests that this common-sense view presents the most …

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