Binding Brain, Body and World

Pattern as a Figure of Knowledge in Andy Clark’s Work on Predictive Processing

Bibliographic Data

ID22003603
AuthorsStephan Besser (University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume17
Issue1
Publication date2022-05-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoroi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2151-2957 • E-ISSN: 2151-2957
PublisherThe University of Iowa (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17077/2151-2957.31133
OpenAlexW4225407029
LanguageEN
References cited20

Over the past two decades, the predictive processing (PP) framework has emerged as an immensely influential research paradigm in cognitive science and beyond. This article analyzes the critical role that the notion of ‘pattern’ plays in the agenda-setting work of philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark on PP and considers the project to develop the framework into a unified theory of the embodied mind. It argues that pattern contributes to this project not primarily as a full-fledged concept but rather as a figure of knowledge that shapes PP theory at a rhetorical and aesthetic level. The article offers a definition of figures of knowledge as a critical concept and suggests to apply it more broadly to the study of pattern as “keyword of our times” (Franco Moretti)

Body of knowledge · Cognition · Cognitive science · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Linguistics · Rhetorical question · Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Engineering · Philosophy · Psychology

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