[SydPhil] Andy Clark public talk at Macquarie this Thursday 5th

[Richard Menary]

Dear All,

A reminder:

Andy Clark will give a Macquarie Minds and Intelligences Initiative public lecture. This will be held on Thursday 5th December from 11am to 12pm in the Hearing Hub Lecture Theatre, Level 1, Hearing Hub. There is no need to register for this talk.

Prediction-Action-Value Machines
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.


Best,

Richard

Richard Menary FAHA
Professor of Philosophy
Head of the School of Humanities

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Best,

Richard

Richard Menary FAHA

Professor of Philosophy
Macquarie University

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