Busting Out: Predictive Brains, Embodied Minds, and the Puzzle of the Evidentiary Veil
Busting Out: Predictive Brains, Embodied Minds, and the Puzzle of the Evidentiary Veil
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作者：
Clark, Andy
生物大脑越来越多地被塑造成“预测机器”：进化的器官，其核心操作原理是通过尝试预测自己的感官刺激模式来了解世界。一些人认为，这应该引导我们接受大脑束缚的“神经中心主义”的思维观。这些观点认为，心智完全由预测性大脑的头骨活动组成。在这篇论文中，我拒绝接受从预测性大脑到头骨思维的推论。我希望展示的是，具有预测能力的大脑能够很好地参与到更大的认知回路中。因此，为一种新的综合方法扫清了道路，在这种方法中，预测性大脑充当“扩展思维”的入口点，而具体化和行动则构成了与世界的认知联系。
Biological brains are increasingly cast as 'prediction machines': evolved organs whose core operating principle is to learn about the world by trying to predict their own patterns of sensory stimulation. This, some argue, should lead us to embrace a brain-bound 'neurocentric' vision of the mind. The mind, such views suggest, consists entirely in the skull-bound activity of the predictive brain. In this paper I reject the inference from predictive brains to skull-bound minds. Predictive brains, I hope to show, can be apt participants in larger cognitive circuits. The path is thus cleared for a new synthesis in which predictive brains act as entry-points for 'extended minds', and embodiment and action contribute constitutively to knowing contact with the world.