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Bubbles

Posted on May 19, 2015 by headbirths

In many of the posts on this blogsite, I have been advocating a physicalist worldview in which an agent interacts with the environment in which it is in. This includes many references to Karl Friston’s ‘variational free energy’ theory of … Continue reading →

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Alva Noe against Hubel and Wiesel

Posted on February 15, 2011 by headbirths

Alva Noe appears to be really irritated that David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel won the 1981 Nobel prize for physiology, for their work on the information processing in the visual system of mammals. He directs a whole chapter of ‘Out … Continue reading →

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Pseudo-Closed-Loop-Feedback for Sensorimotor Control

Posted on February 15, 2011 by headbirths

Rodney Brooks’s fashionable ‘the world is its own model’ idea obviates the traditional need for ‘representations’ within the mind. Rick Grush believes such representations are the basis of consciousness and reinforces ‘representation’ by drawing on ‘pseudo closed loop feedback’ (PCLF). … Continue reading →

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