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5. Diachronic Constitution and Extended Consciousness

Julian Kiverstein and Michael Kirchhoff June 20, 2019 September 8, 2022 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 …

4. Is Perceptual Experience Controlled Hallucination?

Julian Kiverstein and Michael Kirchhoff June 19, 2019 June 19, 2019 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, …

3. The Markov Blanketed Mind

Julian Kiverstein and Michael Kirchhoff June 18, 2019 June 18, 2019 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 …

2. Third-wave extended mind and predictive processing

Julian Kiverstein and Michael Kirchhoff June 17, 2019 June 17, 2019 Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein: Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing / Uncategorized

Thanks to John Schwenkler for the invitation to guest-blog this week about our book Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third-Wave View (Routledge, 2019): https://www.crcpress.com/Extended-Consciousness-and-Predictive-Processing-A-Third-Wave-View/Kirchhoff-Kiverstein/p/book/9781138556812 Where does your (conscious) mind stop, and the rest of the world begin? We defend what has come to be called a “third-wave” account of …

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John Schwenkler June 16, 2019 June 26, 2019 books

Thanks to Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein for blogging this week on Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave View (Routledge, 2019). To view all their posts on a single page, please click here.

1. The Boundaries of the Conscious Mind

Julian Kiverstein and Michael Kirchhoff June 15, 2019 June 16, 2019 Michael Kirchhoff and Julian Kiverstein: Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing

Thanks to John Schwenkler for the invitation to guest-blog this week about our book Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third-Wave View (Routledge, 2019). Suppose a science of the mind of the future fully explains what it is that makes an animal a conscious subject, capable of enjoying and enduring …