Just How Conservative Is Conservative Predictive Processing?

• Authors: Gładziejewski, Paweł

Abstracts

EN

Predictive Processing (PP) framework construes perception and action (and perhaps other cognitive phenomena) as a matter of minimizing prediction error, i.e. the mismatch between the sensory input and sensory predictions generated by a hierarchically organized statistical model. There is a question of how PP fits into the debate between traditional, neurocentric and representation-heavy approaches in cognitive science and those approaches that see cognition as embodied, environmentally embedded, extended and (largely) representation-free. In the present paper, I aim to investigate and clarify the cognitivist or ‘conservative’ reading of PP. I argue that the conservative commitments of PP can be divided into three distinct categories: (1) representationalism, (2) inferentialism, and (3) internalism. I show how these commitments and their relations should be understood and argue for an interpretation of each that is both non-trivial and largely ecumenical towards the 4E literature. Conservative PP is as progressive as conservatism gets

Keywords

EN

embodied cognition; enactivism; Free Energy Principle; inference; internalism; Predictive Processing; mental representation

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 38 (3)

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Gładziejewski, Paweł

other

Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/24145