Thread by @danschlz

A few spectacular reads on Andy Clark's theory of the predictive mind.

newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…

"When the brain strove to minimize prediction error, it was not just trying to reduce its uncertainty about what was going on in the world; it was struggling to resolve the contradictions between fantasy and reality—ideally by making reality more like fantasy."

"The brain had to do two things in order to survive: it had to impel its body to get what it needed, and it had to form an understanding of the world that was realistic enough to guide it in doing so."

"All neural processing consists of two streams: a bottom-up stream of sense data, and a top-down stream of predictions."

slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/boo…

"We should think of minds extending into bodies and artefacts, rather than merely interacting with them."

aeon.co/ideas/the-mind…