The Set of Priors Related Concepts Instrumental in Understanding Conscious Perception Begs Clarification

Frontiers in Psychology

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Talis Bachmann¹ 

[1] Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tartu

关键词: consciousness;    predictive coding;    prior;    expectation;    perception;    illusory perception;    hallucination;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01293

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

More than 20 years ago, Block (1995) famously called “consciousness” a “mongrel concept.” Indeed,the same term had been used for many different things, leading to much misunderstanding andcontroversy in consciousness research. As it appears, the currently massively used set of priorsrelated concepts such as “prior,” “prediction,” “expectations,” “attention,” etc. likewise hide premisesfor multiple parallel interpretations of the same data or misattributions to various constituentunderlying mechanisms. This makes debates and discussions less fruitful than they could be whenthe terminology would be more carefully used.

【 授权许可】

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