The Brain as a Predictive System

The Brain as a Predictive System
Generative Models and Identity

T-Reality Series
Philosophy of Mind and Neurophilosophy
Second Domain - Neuro-Cognitive Domain Volume 6

The Brain as a Predictive System is the sixth volume of the T-Reality Series and the opening volume of its neuro-cognitive domain.

This book offers a systematic and academically grounded introduction to the predictive paradigm as one of the central frameworks in contemporary cognitive science. In the theoretical horizon of Karl Friston, Andy Clark, Jakob Hohwy, Anil Seth, and Thomas Metzinger, the brain is examined not as a passive receiver of inputs, but as an active system of modeling, prediction, correction, and regulation.

The volume develops, in sequence, the central concepts of this field:

• generative models

• prediction error

• precision

• inferential updating

• hierarchical inference

• active inference

• the body as an inferential constraint

• interoception

• organismic stability

• self-models

• phenomenal identity

The analysis shows how the predictive paradigm makes it possible to reinterpret perception, action, bodily regulation, and continuity of self within a unified theoretical framework, without reducing the mind to passive world-reception and without relying on substantialist accounts of identity.

Particular attention is given to the relation between predictive processing and the structure of embodied cognition, to the emergence of self-models from bodily and regulatory processes, and to the problem of phenomenal continuity within a predictive architecture. The book also addresses the explanatory scope and theoretical limits of the predictive paradigm, especially where it confronts subjective experience and the structure of selfhood.

Written in an academic style and with language suited to serious study, the volume stands at the intersection of philosophy of mind, neurophilosophy, theoretical neuroscience, and cognitive science. It offers a strong conceptual foundation for readers interested in current debates on the predictive brain, embodied cognition, self-model theory, interoception, phenomenal identity, and the construction of experience.

Ideal for scholars, researchers, university students, and advanced readers interested in predictive processing, predictive coding, active inference, self-model theory, interoception, embodied cognition, phenomenal identity, and neurophilosophy.