The following is a guest post by Brains blog reader Eric Lindell, whose paper “A Note on Active Panpsychism” was published recently in The Journal of Mind and Behavior. Abstract: Maturana’s Biology of Cognition offers a theory of consciousness without claiming it as such. Instead, it claims only to have …
In ‘Experimental ordinary language philosophy: a cross-linguistic investigation of default inferences’, (Synthese, 2019) Eugen Fischer, Paul Engelhard, Joachim Horvath and Hiroshi Ohtani seek to take experimental philosophy beyond the study of intuitions and highlight links to one of its historical precursors. They show how experimental methods and findings from psycholinguistics …
Beate Krickel and Matej Kohár will discuss the Completeness of Mechanistic Explanation on the next Neural Mechanisms webinar on Friday, July 12. Find out how to join the discussion (for free) in this post.
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences is a new, peer-reviewed, independent, not-for-profit, entirely open-access journal that “focuses on the interface between philosophy of mind, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience”. Its editors-in-chief are Sascha Benjamin Fink (Magdeburg), Wanja Wiese (Mainz), and Jennifer Windt (Monash).
The journal is now open for submissions.
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 …
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, …
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 …
