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Predictive Processing and the Representation Wars.
1Faculty of Philosophy, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Predictive processing offers a novel framework for understanding neural function, potentially resolving long-standing debates in cognitive science. This approach emphasizes pragmatic success over strict accuracy in internal representations.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Neuroscience
- Philosophy of Mind
Background:
- The "representation wars" in cognitive science question the nature and role of internal representations in explaining mental processes.
- Existing representationalist frameworks face foundational challenges that limit their explanatory power.
- Predictive processing has been proposed as a unifying theory for neural function.
Purpose of the Study:
- To defend and develop Clark's suggestion that predictive processing can resolve the "representation wars."
- To broaden the scope of challenges to representational cognitive science.
- To articulate unique features of predictive processing's account of internal representation.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of foundational challenges to representational cognitive science.
- Articulation of predictive processing's distinct approach to internal representation.
- Argumentation for the pragmatic and organism-relative nature of these representations.
Main Results:
- Predictive processing posits a resemblance-based representational architecture.
- Internal representations are characterized by organism-relative contents.
- These representations function to achieve pragmatic success rather than strict veridicality.
Conclusions:
- Predictive processing offers a framework that is either immune to or can actively incorporate anti-representationalist challenges.
- This approach provides a novel way to understand internal representation in cognitive science.
- The pragmatic function of representations is highlighted as a key distinction.

