Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind - Hardcover
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predictions then initiate actions that structure our worlds and alter the very things we need to engage and predict. Clark takes us on a journey in discovering the circular causal flows and the self-structuring of the environment that define the predictive brain. What emerges is a bold, new,
cutting-edge vision that reveals the brain as our driving force in the daily surf through the waves of sensory stimulation.
Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind - Hardcover
$39.99
by Andy Clark (Author)
How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our
existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and robotics.
predictions then initiate actions that structure our worlds and alter the very things we need to engage and predict. Clark takes us on a journey in discovering the circular causal flows and the self-structuring of the environment that define the predictive brain. What emerges is a bold, new,
cutting-edge vision that reveals the brain as our driving force in the daily surf through the waves of sensory stimulation.
Author Biography
Andy Clark is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, at Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is the author of Being There (1997), Mindware (2001), Natural-Born Cyborgs (2003), and Supersizing the Mind (2008). His interests include artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, robotics, and the predictive mind. In 2018 he was profiled in The New Yorker.
Number of Pages: 424
Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.1 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 03, 2015
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