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The Experience Machine: How OUR Minds Predict And Shape RealityThe Experience Machine: How OUR Minds Predict And Shape Reality A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds One of the most important books yet published this century Spectator For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this
The Experience Machine: How OUR Minds Predict And Shape Reality
A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worlds
‘One of the most important books yet published this century’ Spectator
For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding has advanced in the last few decades, a hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor.
At the forefront of this cognitive revolution is widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark, who has synthesized his ground-breaking work on the predictive brain to explore its fascinating mechanics and implications. Among the most stunning of these is the realization that experience itself, because it is guided by prior expectation, is a kind of controlled hallucination. We don't passively take in the world around us; instead our mind is constantly making and refining predictions about what we expect to see. This even applies to our bodies, as the way we experience pain and other states is shaped by our expectations, and this has broader implications for the understanding and treatment of conditions from PTSD to schizophrenia to medically unexplained symptoms. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, it is our predictions that sculpt our experience.
A landmark study of cognitive science, The Experience Machine lays out the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain for our lives, mental health and society.
'Enjoyable and surprising' - Guardian
'For those who want to know more about an important and growing field of neuroscience, The Experience Machine is an excellent primer' - New Scientist
'There's a growing body of evidence that suggests we don't receive information from the outside world passively. Instead, our minds act as predictive engines, anticipating what we'll encounter next, filling in blanks and bridling at the unexpected... This mind-bending stuff is at the forefront of science, technology, philosophy and much else. Clark makes it thrillingly understandable.' - Prospect Book of the Year 2023
SPECIFICATIONS:
Author:Andy Clark - Энди Кларк
Publisher:Penguin
Language:English
Publication Date:2024
Number of pages:304 pst
Format:Paperback
Width:128 mm / 5'
Height:197 mm / 7,8'
Weight:228 g
ISBN:9780141990583
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