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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-635| Authors: | Drayson, Zoe |
| Title: | Modularity and the predictive mind |
| Online publication date: | 1-Jun-2017 |
| Year of first publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | english |
| Abstract: | Modular approaches to the architecture of the mind claim that some mental mechanisms, such as sensory input processes, operate in special-purpose subsystems that are functionally independent from the rest of the mind. This assumption of modularity seems to be in tension with recent claims that the mind has a predictive architecture. Predictive approaches propose that both sensory processing and higher-level processing are part of the same Bayesian information-processing hierarchy, with no clear boundary between perception and cognition. Furthermore, it is not clear how any part of the predictive architecture could be functionally independent, given that each level of the hierarchy is influenced by the level above. Both the assumption of continuity across the predictive architecture and the seeming non-isolability of parts of the predictive architecture seem to be at odds with the modular approach. I explore and ultimately reject the predictive approach’s apparent commitments to continuity and non-isolation. I argue that predictive architectures can be modular architectures, and that we should in fact expect predictive architectures to exhibit some form of modularity. |
| DDC: | 100 Philosophie 100 Philosophy |
| Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Department: | FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie |
| Place: | Mainz |
| ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
| DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-635 |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-566544 |
| Version: | Published version |
| Publication type: | Buchbeitrag |
| License: | CC BY-ND |
| Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ |
| Citation: | Philosophy and predictive processing Metzinger, Thomas |
| Pages or article number: | 196 207 |
| Publisher: | MIND Group |
| Publisher place: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Issue date: | 2017 |
| Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958573130 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.15502/9783958573130 |
| Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |
