From cognitivism to autopoiesis: towards a computational framework for the embodied mind

Synthese

Volumn 195, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 2459-2482

  Allen, Micah ^a,b   Friston, Karl J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active inference; Computationalism; Connectionism; Embodied cognition; Enactivism; Interoception; Predictive processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006942556     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1288-5     Document Type: Article

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