Experience Machine
by Andy Clark · first published 2023
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I learned a lot about this kind of predictive modeling function of our brains from _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. He was on Sean Carroll's podcast not too long ago and they had a great conversation on this topic.
on “Andreas Kling – Failure is also a habit” ↗Just finished Being You by Anil Seth and The experience machine by Andy Clark. Both great popular science book on current neuroscience and consciousness research.
on “Ask HN: What are you reading these days?” ↗…it's literally everything. Predictive Processing Theory proposes that our whole model is predicting future and only then confirming it through our input signals (eyes, ears etc). I highly recommend The Experience Machine by Andy Clark which explains and arguments this theory very convincingly to the point where I firmly believe it to be true.
on “I disagree with Geoff Hinton regarding "glorified autocomplete"” ↗Now I can't stop thinking about _The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark. It theorizes that this is how humans navigate and experience the real world: Our brains generate what we think the world around is like and our senses don't so much directly process visual…
on “Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds” ↗The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality by Andy Clark So far read about 20%, seems like a lovely theory tying together a lot about how the mind works.
on “Ask HN: What are you reading?” ↗the book I mentioned (_The Experience Machine_ by Andy Clark) talks about this.
on “Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds” ↗