Vincent Tijms reviewed Experience Machine by Andy Clark
Review of 'Experience Machine' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
It's a well-written introduction into predictive processing as a key feature of human cognition. This is a framework that got me very excited in the early 2010s and I still believe it offers very deep insights into what cognition is (and more speculatively, how it probably arose).
Yet in the end the book did not do much more for me than provide an entertaining read. If you want a crash course on the predictive mind (with some excursions into the extended mind), then do pick up this book. If you're already relatively informed about the topic, there may not be enough on display here.
It's a well-written introduction into predictive processing as a key feature of human cognition. This is a framework that got me very excited in the early 2010s and I still believe it offers very deep insights into what cognition is (and more speculatively, how it probably arose).
Yet in the end the book did not do much more for me than provide an entertaining read. If you want a crash course on the predictive mind (with some excursions into the extended mind), then do pick up this book. If you're already relatively informed about the topic, there may not be enough on display here.