What Can Predictive Processing Tell Us about the Content of Perceptual Experience?
Wilkinson, S
Date: 10 June 2021
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
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Abstract
This chapter explores the consequences that the predictive processing framework has for the
debate concerning what can enter into the content of perceptual experience. Within this
debate, there are those who, on the one hand, are ‘conservatives’, claiming that only ‘low-level’ properties enter into the content of perceptual experience, ...
This chapter explores the consequences that the predictive processing framework has for the
debate concerning what can enter into the content of perceptual experience. Within this
debate, there are those who, on the one hand, are ‘conservatives’, claiming that only ‘low-level’ properties enter into the content of perceptual experience, while there are those who, on
the other hand, are more ‘liberal’ and allow ‘higher-level’ properties. One recently expressed
view is that the predictive processing framework dispenses with, or dissolves, the debate
altogether. This chapter argues against this in favour of the view that predictive processing in
fact supports liberalism. It defends this position against four illustrative objections.
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
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