Predictive coding and thought.
Predictive processing has recently been advanced as a global cognitive architecture for the brain. I argue that its commitments concerning the nature and format of cognitive representation are inadequate to account for two basic characteristics of conceptual thought: first, its generality—the fact t...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 197; no. 4; pp. 1749 - 1776 |
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Apr2020
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