Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
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Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
- The brain is continually making predictions about the causes of the sensory information it receives, and it uses that information to update its predictions. In other words, we live in a “controlled hallucination” that remains tied to reality by a dance of prediction and correction, but which is never identical to that reality.
from The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
Laura Pike Seeley added
The predictive brain has much in common with Freud's general understanding of how the mind functions. Predictions are comparable to desires (or wishes), and desires encounter limitations imposed by reality. Behaviour is a compromise, a middle way negotiated between internal drives and the environment. These compromises are, in effect, revised 'pred
... See morefrom Mortal Secrets by Frank Tallis
Debbie Foster added
According to Friston's way of thinking, which he calls active inference, the brain is not the body's helmsman or puppeteer, but its dreamer. Brain and body are bound up in a mutual project to predict the world successfully. Sometimes the brain does the work, sometimes the body.
from Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation by George Musser
Debbie Foster added