Constant, A;
Clark, A;
Kirchhoff, M;
Friston, KJ;
(2020)
Extended active inference: Constructing predictive cognition beyond skulls.
Mind & Language
10.1111/mila.12330.
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Abstract
Cognitive niche construction is the process whereby organisms create and maintain cause–effect models of their niche as guides for fitness influencing behavior. Extended mind theory claims that cognitive processes extend beyond the brain to include predictable states of the world. Active inference and predictive processing in cognitive science assume that organisms embody predictive (i.e., generative) models of the world optimized by standard cognitive functions (e.g., perception, action, learning). This paper presents an active inference formulation that views cognitive niche construction as a cognitive function aimed at optimizing organisms' generative models. We call that process of optimization extended active inference.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Extended active inference: Constructing predictive cognition beyond skulls |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/mila.12330 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12330 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 The Authors. Mind & Language published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Linguistics, Psychology, Experimental, Psychology, active inference, affordances, cognitive niche construction, ecological psychology, extended mind, predictive processing, NICHE, LANGUAGE, SYSTEMS, BRAIN |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology > Imaging Neuroscience |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10118184 |
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