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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.

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  • Cognitive Science
  • Neuroscience
  • Philosophy of Mind

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  • 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.