The Many Faces of Precision

An appreciation of the many roles of ‘precision-weighting’ (upping the gain on select populations of prediction error units) opens the door to better accounts of planning and ‘offline simulation’, makes suggestive contact with large bodies of work on embodied and situated cognition, and offers new p...

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Main Author:	Andy eClark
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-05-01
Series:	Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:	predictive coding hierarchy prediction embodiment Precision
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00270/full

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spelling	doaj-9722d611fdae4cfc8c2e45c02ad0f4512020-11-24T23:03:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782013-05-01410.3389/fpsyg.2013.0027054345The Many Faces of PrecisionAndy eClark0University of EdinburghAn appreciation of the many roles of ‘precision-weighting’ (upping the gain on select populations of prediction error units) opens the door to better accounts of planning and ‘offline simulation’, makes suggestive contact with large bodies of work on embodied and situated cognition, and offers new perspectives on the ‘active brain’. Combined with the complex affordances of language and culture, and operating against the essential backdrop of a variety of more biologically basic ploys and stratagems, the result is a maximally context-sensitive, restless, constantly self-reconfiguring architecture.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00270/fullpredictive codinghierarchypredictionembodimentPrecision
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description	An appreciation of the many roles of ‘precision-weighting’ (upping the gain on select populations of prediction error units) opens the door to better accounts of planning and ‘offline simulation’, makes suggestive contact with large bodies of work on embodied and situated cognition, and offers new perspectives on the ‘active brain’. Combined with the complex affordances of language and culture, and operating against the essential backdrop of a variety of more biologically basic ploys and stratagems, the result is a maximally context-sensitive, restless, constantly self-reconfiguring architecture.
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The Many Faces of Precision

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