Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
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Brain Predicts Actions: Rethinking Perception in Social Interactions - Neuroscience News
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.
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The results highlight that social interactions play a central role in shaping neural representations in the human brain," the authors report.
"[This method has] promising applications for understanding group collaboration, communication, and decision-making."
"[This method has] promising applications for understanding group collaboration, communication, and decision-making."
The new scientific consensus is that the brain actually “sees” very little. Instead it constructs much of our reality through prediction. The vast majority of what we see and perceive is actually a predictive model.