Vanilla PP for Philosophers
A Primer on Predictive Processing
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active inference, attention, bayesian inference, environmental seclusion, free energy principle, hierarchical processing, ideomotor principle, perception, perceptual inference, precision, prediction, prediction error minimization, predictive processing, predictive control, statistical estimation, top-down processingReferences
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