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Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty

2 pointsby themgtover 7 years ago

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napoleoncomplexover 7 years ago
The original title on the website does not do much to reveal the content, but in short, the book is about a new &quot;theory of the brain&quot; (new as in the past 10 years), based on predictive processing.<p>The post itself, and the follow-up posts about predictive processing on the above blog are probably the easiest way to get into the subject, and it&#x27;s an insanely interesting subject.<p>The core of the idea is written a bit into the blogpost: &quot;The key insight: the brain is a multi-layer prediction machine. All neural processing consists of two streams: a bottom-up stream of sense data, and a top-down stream of predictions. These streams interface at each level of processing, comparing themselves to each other and adjusting themselves as necessary.&quot;<p>Deeper into the post, there&#x27;s a breakdown of how this theory fits into various areas of research in novel ways (autism and schizophrenia among them), and I strongly suggest reading through at least that.