Predictive processing and the representation wars: a victory for the eliminativist (via fictionalism)
Predictive processing and the representation wars: a victory for the eliminativist (via fictionalism)
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预测处理和表征战争：消除主义者的胜利（通过虚构主义）
作者：
Adrian Downey
在本文中，我认为，通过结合消除主义和虚构主义的方法对预测处理的亚个人表征假设，我们在经验上强大的，但metaphorically无害的认知科学框架。我开始的文件提供了一个非代表性的帐户的五个关键假设的预测处理（“预测信号”，“错误信号”，“先验”，“似然”，“后验概率”）。然后，我激励一个虚构的方法对剩余的不可或缺的表征假设的预测处理，并解释如何表示可以发挥认识论不可或缺的作用，在预测处理的解释，从而不需要代表metaphorically存在。最后，我概述了接受这种方法的四个结果，并解释了为什么它们是有益的：（1）我们在“表征战争”中取得了形而上学的淘汰主义的胜利;（2）我的解释符合现存的经验实践;（3）我的解释为未来的研究提供了指导;（4）我的叙述提供了回应马克·斯巴克的IBE问题的开端，即小说主义者对待次个人表征的方法。
In this paper I argue that, by combining eliminativist and fictionalist approaches toward the sub-personal representational posits of predictive processing, we arrive at an empirically robust and yet metaphysically innocuous cognitive scientific framework. I begin the paper by providing a non-representational account of the five key posits of predictive processing (“prediction-signal”, “error-signal”, “prior”, “likelihood”, and “posterior probability”). Then, I motivate a fictionalist approach toward the remaining indispensable representational posits of predictive processing, and explain how representation can play an epistemologically indispensable role within predictive processing explanations without thereby requiring that representation metaphysically exists. Finally, I outline four consequences of accepting this approach and explain why they are beneficial: (1) we arrive at a victory for metaphysical eliminativism in the ‘representation wars’; (2) my account fits with extant empirical practice; (3) my account provides guidance for future research; and, (4) my account provides the beginnings of a response to Mark Sprevak’s IBE problem for fictionalist approaches toward sub-personal representation.
影响因子：
33.6
作者：
Wang XJ
通讯作者：
Wang XJ