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The Experience Machine
- How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
- Narrated by: Andy Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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For as long as we've studied the mind, we've believed that information flowing from our senses determines what our mind perceives. But as our understanding of neuroscience and psychology has advanced in the last few decades, a provocative and hugely powerful new view has flipped this assumption on its head. The brain is not a passive receiver, but an ever-active predictor.
At the forefront of this cognitive revolution is widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark, who has synthesized his ground-breaking work on the predictive brain to explore its fascinating mechanics and implications. Among the most stunning of these is the realization that experience itself, because it is guided by prior expectation, is a kind of controlled hallucination. This even applies to our bodies, as the way we experience pain and medical symptoms is shaped by our expectations. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, it is our predictions that sculpt our experience.
A landmark study of cognitive science, The Experience Machine lays out the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain for our lives, mental health and society.
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- TMG-BoB
- 02-01-2024
The Story - a discourse - a game of truth (FDA☮️)
I am a part-time PhD student, full time old Aussie battling doubter & author of humorous text's including "BoB's wisdums" (in print). In my humble opinion this work by Andy Clark succinctly states what I have wondered happens in my mind (I am sympathetic to Andy's explanation of the extended Brain in Ch 6). In particularly during summer months, in my life thus far, my pondering ventures into this domain. It's summer in Australia in 2024 at the time of writing this story (review).... I wholeheartedly (or more accurately 'wholemindedly') recommend this story to other ponderers, even to skeptics/cynics/doubters. Particularly, as I am a foundational card carrying member of the 'Doubters Party'😂 and somehow still sympathetic to Andy's account of the mind processes, then it has truly been through my rigorous process of scrutiny, trust me 😁... This work is revelatory in it's effect on my subjective 'story'. Thank you Andy may you live long and Flourish. ---- The mandatory Meritocratic Metrics -- 5 Stars - Overall experience ... 3 Stars - Performance (personal preference issue as I use an Irish/English 'voice' on my devices and prefer that accent to Andy's accent (apologies to Andy) ..... 5 Stars - Story (see above). Endnote .. ☮️ (FDA) refers to Foucauldian Discourse Analysis which I employ as a methodology when problematising my research data set in performance of my PhD project.
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- David Nelson
- 29-06-2023
Fascinating and well read
Thought provoking and fascinating, and I found the quality performance by the author in reading his work added to my enjoyment of the material.
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- Edward
- 06-08-2023
Amazing. Transformative.
So interesting. Foundational. I don’t know what to say really. I’m dumbfounded. I think about this book everyday. I will certainly be reading it again. It has given me a whole new way to understand reality.
Read it for yourself and see what you think.
But the way, the voice is no issue. It’s just an English accent that you get used to very quickly.
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- Toan Ngo
- 23-05-2023
Great book, distracting performance
The way the book was read was very distracting from the content of the book.
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