Generative model

Key question

Does the brain predict its world?

Check your understanding

Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.

Claims to examine

• Predictive accounts model perception through generative models and the correction of prediction error.

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Follow a learning route

• Does the brain predict its world?

  Build the bridge from Bayesian inference to predictive coding and active inference, then inspect its limits.

Reading connections

• The Free-Energy Principle: A Unified Brain Theory?

  Karl Friston

• Surfing Uncertainty

  Andy Clark

• The Predictive Mind

  Jakob Hohwy

• Bayesian Brain

  Kenji Doya et al.

• Active Inference and Learning

  Karl Friston et al.

• Interoceptive Inference, Emotion, and the Embodied Self

  Anil Seth