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http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-644
Authors: | Pliushch, Iuliia |
Title: | The overtone model of self-deception |
Online publication date: | 1-Jun-2017 |
Year of first publication: | 2017 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | In this paper I will argue for what I call an ‘overtone model of self-deception’. The analogy to overtones (higher-order frequencies of a tone) is as follows: a self-deceiver’s optimal degree of instability (the term is borrowed from Friston et al. 2012, and applied to self-deception) is elevated so that constant exploration (of a certain number of hypotheses) is pursued instead of disambiguation in favor of a certain hypothesis. These hypotheses are explored in parallel (for similar ideas with respect to higher-order cognition in general see Pezzulo and Cisek 2016, and Metzinger 2017) and are like overtones of the currently active self-deceptive hypothesis (the base frequency) so that what we as self-deceivers, as well as observers, perceive as one tone (self-deception) is actually a fusion of different frequencies. The term ‘fusion’ is relevant because the phenomenology of the self-deceiver is co-determined by overtones. |
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-644 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-566630 |
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: | 342 359 |
Publisher: | MIND Group |
Publisher place: | Frankfurt am Main |
Issue date: | 2017 |
Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15502/9783958573222 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.15502/9783958573222 |
Appears in collections: | JGU-Publikationen |