Microcognition by Andy Clark

Remix : Andy Clark ʼ s Being There

Introduction In 2005 I left a successful career as a consultant and designer in the children’s new media industry to reenter the academic world. I was interested in how and why different forms of new media might impact children’s experiences and their cognitive development. So much of what I saw in industry was driven by market and business demands and by novelty – being first to market – rathe...

BBS Commentary on : Andy Clark , ‘ Whatever Next ?

Although predictive coding may offer a computational principle that unifies perception and action, states with different directions of fit are involved (with indicative and imperative contents, respectively). Predictive states are adjusted to fit the world in the course of perception, but in the case of action the corresponding states act as a fixed target towards which the agent adjusts the wo...

Review of Natural - Born Cyborgs : Minds , Technologies , and the Future of Human Intelligence , Andy Clark

The notion of the cyborg has exercised the popular imagination for almost two hundred years. In very general terms the idea that a living entity can be a hybrid of both organic matter and mechanical parts, and for all intents and purposes be seamlessly functional and self-regulating, was prefigured in literary works such as Shelly s Frankenstein (1816/18) and Samuel Butler s Erewhon (1872). Thi...

Madary, M. (2015). Extending the Explanandum for Predictive Processing - A Commentary on Andy Clark

In this commentary, I suggest that the predictive processing framework (PP) might be applicable to areas beyond those identified by Clark. In particular, PP may be relevant for our understanding of perceptual content, consciousness, and for applied cognitive neuroscience. My main claim for each area is as follows: 1) PP urges an organism-relative conception of perceptual content. 2) Historical ...

Book review: Andy Clark // surfing uncertainty: prediction, action, and the embodied brain