ALEXANDER JAMES GILLETT
Abstract: Recent work in computational and cognitive neuroscience depicts the brain as an ever-active prediction machine. In this talk, I first show how these stories encompass a wide variety of routes to adaptive response. These include rich, knowledge-driven processing, but also more ‘fast and frugal’ action-involving solutions of the kind highlighted by work in robotics and embodied cognition. The ‘predictive processing’ framework thus shows great promise as a means of both understanding and integrating many of the core information processing strategies underlying perception, thought, and action. But this leaves many questions unanswered. Can a story that posits prediction error minimization as cognitive bedrock accommodate the undoubted attractions of novelty and exploration? Is it falsifiable? What is the true scope of this story – can it really be a theory of ‘everything cognitive’?
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