"Through others we become ourselves": The dialectics of predictive coding and active inference

Behav Brain Sci. 2020 May 28:43:e93. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X19002917.

Abstract

Thinking through other minds creatively situates the free-energy principle within real-life cultural processes, thereby enriching both sociocultural theories and Bayesian accounts of cognition. Here, shifting the attention from thinking-through to becoming-with, we suggest complementing such an account by focusing on the empirical, computational, and conceptual investigation of the multiscale dynamics of social interaction.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Attention*
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Cognition*