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Perception As Controlled Hallucination: Predictive Processing and the Nature of Conscious Experience [1]

Perception itself is a kind of controlled hallucination. . . . [T]he sensory information here acts as feedback on your expectations. It allows you to often correct them and to refine them. But the heavy lifting seems to be being done by the expectations. Does that mean that perception is a controlled hallucination? I sometimes think it would be good to flip that and just think that hallucination is a kind of uncontrolled perception. 

ANDY CLARK is professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex and author of Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind. Andy Clark's Edge Bio Page [2]

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[1] https://stage.edge.org/video/perception-as-controlled-hallucination-predictive-processing-and-the-nature-of-conscious
[2] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/andy_clark