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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Andy Clark
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Description for Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
Hardback. Exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence are revealing minds like ours as predictive minds, forever trying to guess the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. Num Pages: 424 pages, With illustrations. BIC Classification: GTR; HPM; JMR; PSAN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 163 x 29. Weight in Grams: 734.
In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition to familiar models of human cognition, Surfing Uncertainty explores exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence that reveal minds like ours to be prediction machines-devices that have evolved to anticipate the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. This keeps minds like ours a few steps ahead of the game, poised to respond rapidly and apparently effortlessly to threats and opportunities as (and sometimes even before) they arise. ... Read more
In this ground-breaking work, philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark turns a common view of the human mind upside down. In stark opposition to familiar models of human cognition, Surfing Uncertainty explores exciting new theories in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence that reveal minds like ours to be prediction machines-devices that have evolved to anticipate the incoming streams of sensory stimulation before they arrive. This keeps minds like ours a few steps ahead of the game, poised to respond rapidly and apparently effortlessly to threats and opportunities as (and sometimes even before) they arise. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
756g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190217013
SKU
V9780190217013
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99-47
About Andy Clark
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: Putting Brain, Body And World Together Again (1997), Mindware (OUP, 2nd Edition 2014), Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence (OUP, 2003), and Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, ... Read more
Reviews for Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
A wonderful book ... Clark's Surfing Uncertainty will become an essential point of departure for philosophers and cognitive scientists trying to come to grips with the apparatus of predictive processing.
Kenneth Aizawa, Metascience
fresh insights and intensely provocative moments
Anil Ananatgaswamy, New Scientist
The book admirably conveys the excitement and ambition of the field ... Andy ... Read more
Kenneth Aizawa, Metascience
fresh insights and intensely provocative moments
Anil Ananatgaswamy, New Scientist
The book admirably conveys the excitement and ambition of the field ... Andy ... Read more