Hi, Glen, I liked the predictive processing thing. It coheres with an idea I have been kicking around of late. People tend to think of cognitive processes as putting us in touch with the world as it is. Then we look at that represented world and make decisions about the future. Wouldn't it make more sense for cognitive processes to put us in touch with the world as it is going to be? To translate that back into monist talk, we live in a world of successive anticipations. As I get more frail, I become aware of all the hard work my cerebellum must be doing to anticipate the consequences of any action I might take that changes my center of gravity. A delayed prediction can lead to my taking actions that compound a balance prediction and send me to the floor. it's like I am doing judo to myself.
Is that annoying enough to feed the beast? Nick On Mon, Jul 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM glen <[email protected]> wrote: > It's so dead, here, I figure it can't hurt to post arbitrary nonsense I've > run across lately: > > Meningeal lymphatic architecture and drainage dynamics surrounding the > human middle meningeal artery > https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113693 > > Constructing a lower-bound estimate of the global number of insect species > on a hyperdiverse empirical foundation > https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2524283123 > > Predictive Processing: From Sensorimotor Skills to Higher Cognition > https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/15999.003.0011 > > As always, I'm reading them in fitful bursts, interleaved across each > other and all the other open tabs and crap strewn about my desk. So .... > grain of salt and all. > > -- > 8647 ⊥ ɐןןǝdoɹ ǝ uǝןƃ > ὅτε oi μὲν ἄλλοι κύνες τοὺς ἐχϑροὺς δάκνουσιν, ἐγὰ δὲ τοὺς φίλους, ἵνα > σώσω. > > > .- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / > ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-.. > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > -- Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology Clark University [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson https://substack.com/@monist
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