Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8400501 | Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology | 2017 | 30 Pages |
Abstract
Recent advances in modern physics and biology reveal several scenarios in which top-down effects (Ellis, 2016) and anticipatory systems (Rosen, 1980) indicate processes at work enabling active modeling and inference such that anticipated effects project onto potential causes. We extrapolate a broad landscape of anticipatory systems in the natural sciences extending to computational neuroscience of perception in the capacity of Bayesian inferential models of predictive processing. This line of reasoning also comes with philosophical foundations, which we develop in terms of counterfactual reasoning and possibility space, Whitehead's process thought, and correlations with Eastern wisdom traditions.
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Authors
Jesse S. Bettinger, Timothy E. Eastman,