Listen now (123 min) | In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Andy Clark about prediction processing, embodiment, and reality. They discuss the predictive processing model, Bayesian brain, and the role of human growth and development for the brain. They question what is reality, Friston’s Free Energy Principle, controlled hallucinations, and computational psychiatry. They also talk about reward vs. salience, prediction error, body budget, consciousness, the extended mind, and many other topics.
Wonderful conversation. Your podcast has quickly become one of my favorites. Clark is very clearheaded on these questions, I think.
Regarding whether psychiatry and neurology are really at bottom the same thing, it’s worth mentioning that much of the difference is practical, and comes from the fact that psychiatrists and neurologists do very different things on a day-to-day basis. Even though we are working with the same organ, the manifestations of illness are so varied that it requires more than one specialty. Although I agree that at a fundamental level it all converges.
Wonderful conversation. Your podcast has quickly become one of my favorites. Clark is very clearheaded on these questions, I think.
Regarding whether psychiatry and neurology are really at bottom the same thing, it’s worth mentioning that much of the difference is practical, and comes from the fact that psychiatrists and neurologists do very different things on a day-to-day basis. Even though we are working with the same organ, the manifestations of illness are so varied that it requires more than one specialty. Although I agree that at a fundamental level it all converges.
Thanks again.