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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear All,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andy Clark will give two talks on the 4<sup>th</sup> and 5<sup>th</sup> of December. Both talks will be held on the Wallumattagal Campus, Macquarie Park.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first is the final talk of the Evolving Individuality workshop on the 4<sup>th</sup>, details and registration can be found here:
<a href="https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ykf1Ck81N9tqA1yY6F2f8HGIZnF?domain=pierrickbourrat.github.io/">https://pierrickbourrat.github.io/EvolvingIndividuality/</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Cognitive Entanglement: Predictive Brains and the Intimacy of Mind and World</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This talk is about our ongoing Synergy Grant project ‘Material Minds’. The project seeks to understand the many ways human minds become increasingly entangled with our human-built worlds. More specifically, my target in the talk is a ‘thesis
of cognitive entanglement’ according to which the various complex worlds we build and live in fundamentally and non-trivially alter the shape of human thought and reason. Claims of this kind can be found in a wide variety of literatures including philosophy,
cognitive science, and cognitive archaeology. But despite this, there is no widely accepted account or model of what cognitive entanglement might involve or exactly how (indeed, if) it could occur. In the talk, I explore the potential for work in predictive
processing (active inference) to help plug that gap. Attention, I suggest, is one key resource whose continuous reciprocal interactions with materiality result in cognitive entanglements at multiple scales of space and time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The second is a Macquarie Minds and Intelligences Initiative public lecture. This will be held on <b>Thursday 5<sup>th</sup> December</b> <b>from 11am to 12pm</b> in the <b>Hearing Hub Lecture Theatre</b>, Level 1, Hearing Hub. There is
no need to register for this talk.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">Prediction-Action-Value Machines</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In this talk I first Sample the Predictive Processing/Active Inference (AIF) picture of minds as pro-active prediction machines. I then dig a little deeper by asking what’s special about that picture? How does it differ
from nearby views that likewise treat perception (and sometimes action too) as involving a process of (mostly) unconscious inference? The difference, I argue, lies in the way value permeates the kind of generative models assumed by AIF. This makes it intelligible
that human perception does not simply reveal a structured world. It reveals a meaningful world - a world biased by organismic needs, individual goals, and our changing abilities for action.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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