# the predictive mind chapter 12 **Opening (not a real abstract):** Into the predictive mind In this last chapter, the prediction error mechanism is extended deep into matters of the mind. I will consider what to say about emotions, introspection, privacy of mind, and the self. These are certainly aspects where the application of prediction error minimization becomes more tenuous. However, the prediction error minimization idea, especially in its generalized, free energy formulation and related to statistical physics (Friston 2010), has extreme explanatory scope. As the prominent neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, whose work was discussed in Chapter 9, puts it “It is the first time that we have had a theory of this strength, breadth and depth in cognitive neuroscience . . . Most other models, including mine, are just models of one small aspect of the brain, very limited in their scope. This one falls much closer to a **Authors:** [[hohwy]]