Commentary: Brain, Mind, World: Predictive Coding, Neo-Kantianism, and Transcendental Idealism

Piekarski, Michał

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02077

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“…It is worth considering the twentieth‐century psychologist James Gibson's ideas here on visual perception. It has been said that his ecological psychology is information‐based rather than sensation‐based (Piekarski ). If we continue the analogy of the glass on the table, Gibbons would argue that our perception of it is direct rather than representational.…”

Section: Agency Form and Realitymentioning

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Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Beharrell¹

2019

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This article considers the kind of knowledge that is constituted through embodied sensory perception and makes the case for a form of knowledge that is embodied, relational, and potentially transformational. Such knowledge is encountered through our physiological senses and cultivated by reestablishing connections to our bodies. The discussion starts by exploring the literature on sensory perception and interoception and moves on to the role of human agency, which is implicit in the idea of top‐down causation. It is argued that this process can be explained by a top‐down predictive model within which a sense of greater interoceptive accuracy may be cultivated while reducing interoceptive perturbation. The roles of active and perceptual inference are discussed with regard to the regulatory opportunities that these types of attention yield. By being more interoceptively aware, through a practice of contemplation, it is argued, we open ourselves to an encounter with divine presence that is immanent in the world around us.

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Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Beharrell¹

2019

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“…To this end, we will attempt to draw from different theoretical approaches. We wish to demonstrate that despite differing and in some cases opposing ideas from these approaches (see Grush, 2006 ; Piekarski, 2017 ; Zahavi, 2018 ; for discussion), they may converge in important parts of their content and be put into a productive dialogue pushing the boundaries of current theory.…”

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The Temporality of Situated Cognition

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Situated cognition embeds perceptions, thoughts, and behavior within the contextual framework of so-called “4E cognition” understanding cognition to be embodied, enactive, extended, and embedded. Whereas this definition is primarily based on the spatial properties of a situation, it neglects a fundamental constituent: the cognitive situation as enduring . On a subpersonal level, situated cognition requires the integration of information processing within a minimal temporal extension generating the basic building blocks of perception and action (“microlayer” of time). On a personal level, lived situations and experienced narratives leading to our biography can be defined by their broader temporal horizons (“macrolayer” of time). The macrolayer of time is based on and emerges from information processing on the microlayer of time. Whereas the constraints on the microlayer are primarily defined by the integrity of neurobiological processes within an individual cognitive system, the temporal horizons and subsequently the situational context on the macrolayer are defined by the complex affordances of a situation on a personal or interpersonal level. On both time layers, cognition can be defined as a continuous dynamic process, reflecting the transition from one situated state to another. Taken together, the events forming the delimiting horizons of these situations correspond to the temporal structure of the cognitive process along which it continuously proceeds. The dynamic driving and enabling this transition from state to state is synonymous with the inherent flow of time. Just as the layers of time, flow and structure, are inseparably connected. The integration of temporal flow and temporal structure into the continuous dynamic process constitutes the enduring situatedness of cognition. By providing everyday examples and examples from psychopathology, we highlight the benefits of understanding cognitive processes as part of enduring situations.

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“…If predictive processing showed that cognitive systems had no grip on its environment at all, then predictive processing would not only entail external world skepticism but undermine itself. See Zahavi's (2017) criticism of Hohwy, though not of Clark; for a critical response to Zahavi, seePiekarski (2017).…”

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In defense of picturing; Sellars’s philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience

Sachs

2018

Phenom Cogn Sci

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I argue that Sellars's distinction between signifying and picturing should be taken seriously by philosophers of mind, language, and cognition. I begin with interpretations of key Sellarsian texts in order to show that picturing is best understood as a theory of non-linguistic cognitive representations through which animals navigate their environments. This is distinct from the kind of discursive cognition that Sellars called 'signifying' and which is best understood in terms of socio-linguistic inferences. I argue that picturing is required because reflection on signifying cannot adequately explain our need for cognitive friction. I then show how the idea of picturing is further developed by Paul Churchland, Ruth Garrett Millikan, and Huw Price. I finally turn to predictive processing as a theory of cognitive representation, and in particular Andy Clark's 'radical predictive processing', to further characterize picturing. However, doing so has the cost of pushing picturing and signifying further apart than Sellars intended.

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Commentary: Brain, Mind, World: Predictive Coding, Neo-Kantianism, and Transcendental Idealism

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

Transformation and the Waking Body: A Return to Truth via Our Bodies

The Temporality of Situated Cognition

In defense of picturing; Sellars’s philosophy of mind and cognitive neuroscience

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