# The Predictive Mind ![rw-book-cover](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/media/reader/parsed_document_assets/16878275/oWHGbe0x1l1e99qADtsWMka-ToJ77MMvyuZdohIlEkM-cover_1Ld696V.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[Jakob Hohwy]] - Full Title: The Predictive Mind - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: This chapter discusses how perception arises from minimizing prediction errors in the brain. It explores the idea that our internal beliefs are updated to explain sensory input, making perception a complex but fragile process. The author links this concept to attention and consciousness, suggesting that our understanding of perception is shaped by both internal models and our interactions with the world. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/16878275 - Source File: The Predictive Mind JAKOB HOHWY.pdf ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > Perception is more actively engaged inmaking sense ofthe world than is commonly thought. And yet it is characterized by curious passivity. Our perceptual relation to the world is robustly guided by the offerings of the sensory input. And yet the relation is indirect and marked by a somewhat disconcerting fragility. The sensory input to the brain does not shape perception directly: sensory input is better and more perplexingly characterized as feedback to the queries issued by the brain. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnjp9re1ae51k2p0385m1adw)) > Van Boxtel et al. sum up in this slogan: From this viewpoint, we can regard selective, focal attention as an analyzer and consciousness as a synthesizer. To the extent that one accepts that attention and consciousness have different functions, one has to accept that they cannot be the same process, and anticipate dissociations between the two. (ibid.) ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnjryh6y7k6zwtgzt4jpm1pm)) ## New highlights added March 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM > especially interesting to look at these attention-related emotion constructs in the context of mental illness, such as mood disorders and other afflictions such as alexithymia. > Into the predictive mind 245‌ > [INTROSPECTION IS INFERENCE ON MENTAL CAUSES](https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/16878275/#bookmark6) > Sometimes we go about our business and perceive the world in the process. Sometimes we direct attention inwards and engag ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01jnk48frkwdg39gk1zdbt2fbg))