SyntheseJanuary 29, 2020K. Dołęga, Joe E. Dewhurst
The proposal that probabilistic inference and unconscious hypothesis testing are central to information processing in the brain has been steadily gaining ground in cognitive neuroscience and associated fields. One popular version of this proposal is the new theoretical framework of predictive processing or prediction error minimization (PEM), which couples unconscious hypothesis testing with...
This chapter explores the role of embodiment in British cybernetics, specifically in the works of Grey Walter and Ross Ashby, both of whom have had a distinctive influence on later research in embodied cognition. It considers the relationship between Alan Turing and the British cyberneticists, and contrast Turing&s;s work on computation with the contributions of Walter and Ashby. The chapter...