The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
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The Experience Machine: Cognitive Philosopher Andy Clark on the Power of Expectation and How the Mind Renders Reality
As Mark Miller put it to us, the brain is not a passive receiver of sensory information. It’s constantly generating predictions about what the world should be, and using sensory input only to correct the errors in those predictions. You are not perceiving the world, you are perceiving your brain’s best guess.
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