Perceptual predictions

As with all predictive perception, this best guessing is achieved through a brain-based process of prediction error minimization.

phenomenology of “objecthood,”

in a future similar, but not identical, situation I might indeed do differently.

The control-oriented perceptions that underpin emotions and moods are all about predicting the consequences of actions for keeping the body’s essential variables where they belong.

The social self is all about how I perceive others perceiving me.

Action is inseparable from perception.

We never experience sensory signals themselves, we only ever experience interpretations of them.

to who or what is doing the perceiving—well, that’s the “self,” isn’t it, the “I behind the eyes,” one might say, the recipient of wave upon wave of sensory data, which uses its perceptual readouts to guide behavior, to decide what to do next.