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There are some interesting ideas in this book, but unless you're familiar with the predictive brain model, I'd read The Experience Machine by Andy Clark or How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett first. I feel like his coverage is a bit brief for how much he relies on the concept, and it will be easier to follow with a better picture of how broadly applicable the model really is.
Despite that (or because I had done other reading to fill in the gaps), I did enjoy the book. I liked the direct reference to/utilization of Bayesian logic in his use of the prediction framework, and I found the broad ideas of information integration theory and the free energy principle that he covers as potentially interesting and worth exploring further, whether either is actually an accurate model of how the brain works or not.
There are some interesting ideas in this book, but unless you're familiar with the predictive brain model, I'd read The Experience Machine by Andy Clark or How Emotions are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett first. I feel like his coverage is a bit brief for how much he relies on the concept, and it will be easier to follow with a better picture of how broadly applicable the model really is.
Despite that (or because I had done other reading to fill in the gaps), I did enjoy the book. I liked the direct reference to/utilization of Bayesian logic in his use of the prediction framework, and I found the broad ideas of information integration theory and the free energy principle that he covers as potentially interesting and worth exploring further, whether either is actually an accurate model of how the brain works or not.