Emotion and anticipation in an enactive framework for cognition (response to Andy Clark)

Roesch, E. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8913-4173, Nasuto, S. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9414-9049 and Bishop, J. M. (2012) Emotion and anticipation in an enactive framework for cognition (response to Andy Clark). Frontiers in Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 3 (398). ISSN 1664-1078 doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00398

Abstract/Summary

Undeniably, anticipation plays a crucial role in cognition. By what means, to what extent, and what it achieves remain open questions. In a recent BBS target article, Clark (in press) depicts an integrative model of the brain that builds on hierarchical Bayesian models of neural processing (Rao and Ballard, 1999; Friston, 2005; Brown et al., 2011), and their most recent formulation using the free-energy principle borrowed from thermodynamics (Feldman and Friston, 2010; Friston, 2010; Friston et al., 2010). Hierarchical generative models of cognition, such as those described by Clark, presuppose the manipulation of representations and internal models of the world, in as much detail as is perceptually available. Perhaps surprisingly, Clark acknowledges the existence of a “virtual version of the sensory data” (p. 4), but with no reference to some of the historical debates that shaped cognitive science, related to the storage, manipulation, and retrieval of representations in a cognitive system (Shanahan, 1997), or accounting for the emergence of intentionality within such a system (Searle, 1980; Preston and Bishop, 2002). Instead of demonstrating how this Bayesian framework responds to these foundational questions, Clark describes the structure and the functional properties of an action-oriented, multi-level system that is meant to combine perception, learning, and experience (Niedenthal, 2007).

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Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN) Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
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