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46Expecting some action: Predictive Processing and the construction of conscious experienceReview of Philosophy and Psychology 13 (4): 1019-1037. 2022.Predictive processing has begun to offer new insights into the nature of conscious experience—but the link is not straightforward. A wide variety of systems may be described as predictive machines, raising the question: what differentiates those for which it makes sense to talk about conscious experience? One possible answer lies in the involvement of a higher-order form of prediction error, termed expected free energy. In this paper we explore under what conditions the minimization of this new …Read more
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24The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-BeingEmotion Review 14 (1): 15-30. 2021.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 15-30, January 2022. We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing framework. According to this framework, the difference between mental health and psychopathology can be located in the goodness of the predictive model as a regulator of action. What is crucial for avoiding the rigid patterns of thinking, feeling and acting associated with psychopathology is the regulation of action based on the valence of affective st…Read more
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24The Predictive Dynamics of Happiness and Well-BeingSage Publications: Emotion Review 14 (1): 15-30. 2021.Emotion Review, Volume 14, Issue 1, Page 15-30, January 2022. We offer an account of mental health and well-being using the predictive processing framework. According to this framework, the difference between mental health and psychopathology can be located in the goodness of the predictive model as a regulator of action. What is crucial for avoiding the rigid patterns of thinking, feeling and acting associated with psychopathology is the regulation of action based on the valence of affective st…Read more
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32Correction to: Happily entangled: prediction, emotion, and the embodied mindSynthese 197 (8): 3645-3645. 2020.In the original publication, funding information was missing: Andy Clark was supported by ERC Advanced Grant 692739.
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33Editorial: Predictive Processing and ConsciousnessReview of Philosophy and Psychology 13 (4): 797-808. 2022.
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26Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing account of enjoying uncertain success in video game playFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Why do we seek out and enjoy uncertain success in playing games? Game designers and researchers suggest that games whose challenges match player skills afford engaging experiences of achievement, competence, or effectance—of doing well. Yet, current models struggle to explain why such balanced challenges best afford these experiences and do not straightforwardly account for the appeal of high- and low-challenge game genres like Idle and Soulslike games. In this article, we show that Predictive P…Read more
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47Losing Ourselves: Active Inference, Depersonalization, and MeditationFrontiers in Psychology 11. 2020.
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28Entangled predictive brain: emotion, prediction and embodied cognitionDissertation, University of Edinburgh. 2018.How does the living body impact, and perhaps even help constitute, the thinking, reasoning, feeling agent? This is the guiding question that the following work seeks to answer. The subtitle of this project is emotion, prediction and embodied cognition for good reason: these are the three closely related themes that tie together the various chapters of the following thesis. The central claim is that a better understanding of the nature of emotion offers valuable insight for understanding the natu…Read more
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45The embodied brain: towards a radical embodied cognitive neuroscienceFrontiers in Human Neuroscience 9. 2015.
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81The feeling of grip: novelty, error dynamics, and the predictive brainSynthese 196 (7): 2847-2869. 2019.According to the free energy principle biological agents resist a tendency to disorder in their interactions with a dynamically changing environment by keeping themselves in sensory and physiological states that are expected given their embodiment and the niche they inhabit :127–138, 2010. doi: 10.1038/nrn2787). Why would a biological agent that aims at minimising uncertainty in its encounters with the world ever be motivated to seek out novelty? Novelty for such an agent would arrive in the for…Read more
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214Happily entangled: prediction, emotion, and the embodied mindSynthese 195 (6): 2559-2575. 2018.Recent work in cognitive and computational neuroscience depicts the human cortex as a multi-level prediction engine. This ‘predictive processing’ framework shows great promise as a means of both understanding and integrating the core information processing strategies underlying perception, reasoning, and action. But how, if at all, do emotions and sub-cortical contributions fit into this emerging picture? The fit, we shall argue, is both profound and potentially transformative. In the picture we…Read more
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36The cognitive-emotional brain is an embodied and social brainBehavioral and Brain Sciences 38. 2015.
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