Gallagher, S;
Allen, M;
(2016)
Active inference, enactivism and the hermeneutics of social cognition.
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10.1007/s11229-016-1269-8.
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Abstract
We distinguish between three philosophical views on the neuroscience of predictive models: predictive coding (associated with internal Bayesian models and prediction error minimization), predictive processing (associated with radical connectionism and ‘simple’ embodiment) and predictive engagement (associated with enactivist approaches to cognition). We examine the concept of active inference under each model and then ask how this concept informs discussions of social cognition. In this context we consider Frith and Friston’s proposal for a neural hermeneutics, and we explore the alternative model of enactivist hermeneutics.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Active inference, enactivism and the hermeneutics of social cognition |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-016-1269-8 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-016-1269-8 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Predictive coding; Free energy principle; Active inference; Social cognition; EnactivismHermeneutics |
| 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 |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1542356 |
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