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The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality, Clark, Andy, Ve
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1524748455
ISBN-13
9781524748456
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15057256028
Product Key Features
Book Title
Experience Machine : How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2023
Topic
Cognitive Science, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Life Sciences / Neuroscience, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, Psychology
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2022-037742
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Praise for Andy Clark's The Experience Machine "It's tempting to think that our eyes and ears passively record the world like cameras and microphones, but our perceptions are much more interesting than that. Andy Clark is a leading figure in understanding the brain as a prediction machine--we don't passively take in the world, we're constantly anticipating it and interpreting it accordingly. This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partners in constructing our understanding." --Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion "Is the universe a simulation? Yes! But the simulation takes place in your brain. In this engaging and fascinating book, Andy Clark explains how our expectations dominate the input of our senses to construct our individual perceptions of reality. After reading it, you'll look at human experience in a new way." --Leonard Mlodinow, bestselling author of Emotional and Subliminal "There are many metaphors for how your brain works: a magician, an architect, a fortune-teller, a scientist. Andy Clark's marvelous book The Experience Machine unpacks these metaphors to reveal your brain's mind-bending (and mind-making) predictive powers that construct the reality you see, hear, and feel. Without them, there is only buzzing, blooming confusion. Strap on your seatbelt and prepare to be amazed!" --Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain "If you would like to read the most promising theory of how your brain works (and who doesn't), told by the clearest and most colorful storyteller, this is the only book you need. Tender yet assertive, Andy takes us by the hand as deep into our mind as anyone can glean." --Moshe Bar, author of Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity "In this stunning book, Andy Clark is once again reshaping our understanding of the mind. Clark expertly mobilises the full extent of the predictive experience machine, unifying mind, body and the environment. He then reveals the surprising predictive hacks that enable us better grasp our own unfolding experiences." --Jakob Hohwy, author of The Predictive Mind, Praise for Andy Clark's The Experience Machine "It's tempting to think that our eyes and ears passively record the world like cameras and microphones, but our perceptions are much more interesting than that. Andy Clark is a leading figure in understanding the brain as a prediction machine--we don't passively take in the world, we're constantly anticipating it and interpreting it accordingly. This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partners in constructing our understanding." --Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion "Is the universe a simulation? Yes! But the simulation takes place in your brain. In this engaging and fascinating book, Andy Clark explains how our expectations dominate the input of our senses to construct our individual perceptions of reality. After reading it, you'll look at human experience in a new way." --Leonard Mlodinow, bestselling author of Emotional and Subliminal "There are many metaphors for how your brain works: a magician, an architect, a fortune-teller, a scientist. Andy Clark's marvelous book The Experience Machine unpacks these metaphors to reveal your brain's mind-bending (and mind-making) predictive powers that construct the reality you see, hear, and feel. Without them, there is only buzzing, blooming confusion. Strap on your seatbelt and prepare to be amazed!" --Lisa Feldman Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made and Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain "If you would like to read the most promising theory of how your brain works (and who doesn't), told by the clearest and most colorful storyteller, this is the only book you need. Tender yet assertive, Andy takes us by the hand as deep into our mind as anyone can glean." --Moshe Bar, author of Mindwandering: How Your Constant Mental Drift Can Improve Your Mood and Boost Your Creativity "In this stunning book, Andy Clark is once again reshaping our understanding of the mind. Clark expertly mobilises the full extent of the predictive experience machine, unifying mind, body and the environment. He then reveals the surprising predictive hacks that enable us better grasp our own unfolding experiences." --Jakob Hohwy, author of The Predictive Mind "Drawing on insights from psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy, Clark, a professor of cognitive philosophy, examines how our understanding of the world is fundamentally informed by cognitive forecasting. . . . In this remarkable book, the author clearly and memorably sets forth the profound implications of such a theory. . . . Overall, the author vividly demonstrates that 'a better appreciation of the power of prediction could improve the way we think about our own medical symptoms and suggest new ways of understanding mental health, mental illness, and neurodiversity.' Along the way, Clark offers engaging and insightful commentary on tangential matters such as how ceremonial practices can contribute to feelings of well-being and how digital technologies have boosted our predictive capacities and effectively become extensions of our minds. The author defines and explains complex ideas with admirable clarity, and black-and-white illustrations underscore the concrete importance of specific theoretical claims. A startling, profoundly illuminating account of our mind's predictive abilities." -- Kirkus Reviews [starred review] "[An] eye-opening study. . . . The mind-bending research upends conventional wisdom about how humans interact with the world around them, and the lucid prose ensures lay readers won't get lost. This head trip delivers." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal
153
Table Of Content
Preface: Shaping Experience 1. Unboxing the Prediction Machine 2. Psychiatry and Neurology: Closing the Gap 3. Action as Self- Fulfilling Prediction 4. Predicting the Body Interlude: The Hard Problem-- Predicting the Predictors? 5. Expecting Better 6. Beyond the Naked Brain 7. Hacking the Prediction Machine Conclusions: Ecologies of Prediction, Porous to the World Appendix: Some Nuts and Bolts Acknowledgment Notes Index
Synopsis
A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world "This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partners in constructing our understanding." --Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion For as long as we've studied human cognition, we've believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what's really there--or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it? Widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark unpacks this provocative new theory that the brain is a powerful, dynamic prediction engine, mediating our experience of both body and world. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, reality as we know it is the complex synthesis of sensory information and expectation. Exploring its fascinating mechanics and remarkable implications for our lives, mental health, and society, Clark nimbly illustrates how the predictive brain sculpts all human experience. Chronic pain and mental illness are shown to involve subtle malfunctions of our unconscious predictions, pointing the way towards more effective, targeted treatments. Under renewed scrutiny, the very boundary between ourselves and the outside world dissolves, showing that we are as entangled with our environments as we are with our onboard memories, thoughts, and feelings. And perception itself is revealed to be something of a controlled hallucination. Unveiling the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain, The Experience Machine is a mesmerizing window onto one of the most significant developments in our understanding of the mind.
LC Classification Number
BF311.C5399 2023
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