What do you think about Friston's predictive coding and Free Energy Principle? Is this the future of brain science or an eyewash?

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Dennis Mazur

Please let me know if the following references/sites are helpful to you:

1. Predictive Coding or Evidence Accumulation? False Inference and ...

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0009926Mar 29, 2010 ... In accord with predictive coding models and the free-energy principle, ... Sadaghiani S, Friston KJ, Kleinschmidt A (2010)

2. Predictive coding under the free-energy principle - NCBI - NIH

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2666703/Keywords: generative models, predictive coding, hierarchical, birdsong. Go to: ... on hierarchical inference and empirical Bayes (Friston 2003, 2005; Friston et al.

3. Three Problems for the Predictive Coding Theory of Attention ..

http://mindsonline.philosophyofbrains.com/2015/session4/three-problems-for-the-predictive-coding-theory-of-attention/Sep 19, 2015 ... The predictive coding (PC) theory of attention proposed by Feldman & Friston ( 2010) and defended by Hohwy (2012, 2013)

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Dezso Nemeth

Thanks. These references are super useful., But what is your opinion?