The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

Science & Math

Andy Clark

Behavioral Sciences

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor 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.</p>

Allen Lane.

Connectionism in Context aims to broaden and extend the debate concerning   the significance of connectionist models. The volume collects together a variety of perspectives by experimental and developmental psychologists, philosophers and active AI researchers. These contributions relate con- nectionist ideas to historical psychlogical debates, e.g., over behaviourism and associationism, to develop- mental and philosophical issues. The result is a volume which addresses both familiar, but central,  topics such as the relation between connectionism and classical AI, and less familiar, but highly challenging topics, such as connectionism,associationism and behaviourism, the dis- tinction between perception and   cognition, the role of en- vironmental structure, and the potential value ofconnec- tionism as a means of "symbol grounding". The nine essays have  been written with an interdisciplinary audience in mind and avoid both technical jargon and heavy mathematics.

Connectionism in Context (Artificial Intelligence and Society)

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

Springer, Verlag

Microcognition: Philosophy, Cognitive Science, and Parallel Distributed Processing

Bradford Book

Associative Engines: Connectionism, Concepts, and Representational Change

MIT Press (MA)

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Education & Teaching

Patsy F. Kanter

Janet Gillespie

Schools & Teaching

Great Source Education Group, Inc.

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Beth Ardell

Great Source Every Day Counts: Practice Counts: Student Workbook Grade 3

Children's Books

Education & Reference

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