The cost of over-intellectualizing the free-energy principle

Authors

Daniel D. Hutto, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

143606

Publication Details

Hutto, D. (2020). The cost of over-intellectualizing the free-energy principle. The Behavioral and brain sciences, 43 e105.

Abstract

This commentary raises a question about the target article's proposed explanation of what goes on when we think through other minds. It highlights a tension between non-mindreading characterizations of everyday social cognition and the individualist, cognitivist assumptions that target article's explanatory proposal inherits from the predictive processing framework it favours.