{"id":1148,"date":"2024-07-24T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/?p=13853"},"modified":"2024-07-24T13:09:09","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T13:09:09","slug":"13853","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-thebrain.org\/beginner\/2024\/07\/24\/13853\/","title":{"rendered":"How Andy Clark’s career path mirrors that of cognitive science over the past 40 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week I’m just going to copy and paste a paragraph from a chapter of my book ( to be released in French on October 1, 2024<\/a> <\/span>) in which I describe the career of Andy Clark, an important philosopher of cognitive science, and draw your particular attention to his latest book, The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality<\/i><\/a><\/span><\/strong>, which he discusses in this stimulating interview<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I will start by just briefly describing the career of Andy Clark<\/span><\/span>, a philosopher of cognitive science whom I like a lot, and his encounter with Karl Friston<\/span><\/a>. Because Clark’s career path, all on its own, sums up the major trends in cognitive science over the past 40 years that I talked to you about at our first meeting. First, in keep with the cognitivist<\/strong> paradigm that prevailed at the time, he studied symbolic artificial intelligence, also known as computationalism. Then he became interested in connectionism<\/strong>\u2014 in virtual neural networks, thus more closely approximating the human brain, which can learn by modifying its internal connections. After that, he jumped aboard the train of embodied cognition<\/strong>, thus including the entire body in the equation of our cognitive processes<\/a><\/span><\/strong>, and even the objects in our environment (the concept of extended cognition, of which is he one of the most ardent proponents)<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. And lastly, he made important contributions to the Karl Friston’s bold ideas about <\/a><\/span><\/strong> predictive processing<\/em><\/strong>, the principle of free energy <\/strong>and active inference<\/strong>\u2014in short,all of the concepts whose broad implications I will now discuss<\/a><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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