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3 papers in the library · 100 citations · publishing 1994-2025
Noûs May 15, 2025 Tobias Schlicht
The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) Completeness (PP aims for a comprehensive account of mental phenomena), (2) Bayesian realism (PP claims that PEM is...
Noûs September 1, 1996 Michael Tye 46 citations
To many philosophers, it is a remarkable fact there is any such thing as consciousness. Typically, this attitude stems from a sense of bewilderment as to how consciousness could be generated in the brain. But it is also hard to fathom why Mother Nature went to the trouble of installing consciousness in so many of her creatures. What was consciousness selected for? What biological purpose or...
Noûs June 1, 1994 Michael Tye 54 citations
L'A. developpe un argument d'ordre intentionnaliste contre l'application de la notion de qualia au domaine des experiences de la perception, et rejette a la fois la theorie du contenu de la perception et l'hypothese classique du spectre inverse dans un monde inverse