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Predictive processing's flirt with transcendental idealism
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract The popular predictive processing (PP) framework posits prediction error minimization (PEM) as the sole mechanism in the brain that can account for all mental phenomena, including consciousness. I first highlight three ambitions associated with major presentations of PP: (1) Completeness (PP aims for a comprehensive account of mental phenomena)
Tobias Schlicht
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Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
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From Moral Supervenience to Moral Contingentism (In One Easy Step!)
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT According to the Divide & Conquer (DC) strategy (Fogal and Risberg 2020) for explaining moral supervenience, the modal covariation between moral and natural properties can be partly explained by appeal to pure moral principles. Bhogal (2022) has recently argued that DC fails.
Alexios Stamatiadis‐Bréhier
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Philosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.ABSTRACT To measure is to err. Serving both numeric and non‐numeric measurement, the language of measurement refers to margins of error, within which measurement reports locate their measurements. Such reports and reasoning from them invoke what is known and what is known to be known about error‐strewn measurement to derive and contrast the ...
Barry Schein
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Application of a weighted average model to a psychophysical averaging task [PDF]
, 1967 Norman H. Anderson
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Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Personality can be described by referring to the so‐called Big Five traits, that is, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. These dimensions contribute to explaining individual differences not only in adults but also in children and adolescents. Although many authors used adult or other‐report instruments to
Giada Vicentini +2 more
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Direct quantitative judgments of sums and a two-stage model for psychophysical judgments [PDF]
, 1969 Dwight W. Curtis, Ben E. Fox
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The psychophysics of the kinesthetic aftereffect in the Petrie block experiment [PDF]
, 1968 Ernest R. Hilgard +2 more
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