The philosophy and science of predictive processing

"Offering a complete guide to the philosophical implications of Predictive Processing, this volume's contributors come from disciplines including philosophy, neuroscience and psychology. Together they explore the many philosophical applications of Predictive Processing, including mental health, cognitive science and neuroscience. These approaches are brought together by an introduction that provides an outline of this topic suitable for newcomers to the field, identifying the nuances of the topic"--

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface: The Brain as a Prediction Machine -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction Dina Mendonça Manuel Curado and Steven S. Gouveia -- Part 1 Predictive Processing: Philosophical Approaches -- 1 Predictive Processing and Representation: How Less Can Be More Thomas van Es and Erik Myin -- 2 A Humean Challenge to Predictive Coding Colin Klein -- 3 Are Markov Blankets Real and Does It Matter? Richard Menary and Alexander James Gillett

4 Predictive Processing and Metaphysical Views of the Self Klaus Gärtner and Robert Clowes -- Part 2 Predictive Processing: Cognitive Science and Neuroscientific Approaches -- 5 From the Retina to Action: Dynamics of Predictive Processing in the Visual System Laurent Perrinet -- 6 Predictive Processing and Consciousness: Prediction Fallacy and Its Spatiotemporal Resolution Steven S. Gouveia -- 7 The Many Faces of Attention: Why Precision Optimization Is Not Attention Madeleine Ransom and Sina Fazelpour -- 8 Predictive Processing: Does It Compute? Chris Thornton

Part 3 Predictive Processing: Mental Health -- 9 The Predictive Brain, Conscious Experience, and Brain-rela…