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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">A reminder:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Andy Clark will give 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
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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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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Richard Menary FAHA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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