体验机器：我们的思想如何预测和塑造现实 The Experience Machine:How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (November 5, 2024)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0525567257

Item weight ‏ : ‎ 295 g

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.18 x 1.51 x 20.32 cm

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一个全新的、颠覆我们对大脑与世界互动方式的理解的绝妙心智理论

“这本通俗易懂的书将说服你，大脑和世界是构建我们理解的合作伙伴。”——肖恩·卡罗尔，《纽约时报》畅销书《宇宙中伟大的想法：空间、时间和运动》的作者

自从我们研究人类认知以来，我们就一直相信我们的感官让我们能够直接接触世界。我们看到的就是真实存在的——或者至少人们的想法是这样的。但神经科学和心理学的新发现颠覆了这一假设。如果你的大脑不是被动地感知现实，而是主动地预测现实，会怎么样？

广受赞誉的哲学家和认知科学家安迪·克拉克揭示了这一具有挑衅性的新理论，即大脑是一个强大的动态预测引擎，调节我们对身体和世界的体验。从平凡的经历到崇高的体验，我们所知道的现实是感官信息和期望的复杂综合。通过探索其迷人的机制以及对我们的生活、心理健康和社会的重大影响，克拉克巧妙地说明了预测性大脑如何塑造所有人类体验。慢性疼痛和精神疾病被证明与我们的潜意识预测的微妙故障有关，这为更有效、更有针对性的治疗指明了方向。在重新审视之下，我们与外部世界之间的界限消失了，表明我们与环境的纠缠不清，就像我们与机载记忆、思想和感觉的纠缠一样。感知本身被揭示为一种受控的幻觉。

《体验机器》揭示了预测性大脑非凡的解释能力，是一扇令人着迷的窗口，让我们看到我们对思维理解中重要的发展之一。

A brilliant new theory of the mind that upends our understanding of how the brain interacts with the world

“This thoroughly readable book will convince you that the brain and the world are partners in constructing our understanding.” —Sean Carroll, New York Times bestselling author of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion

For as long as we’ve studied human cognition, we’ve believed that our senses give us direct access to the world. What we see is what’s really there—or so the thinking goes. But new discoveries in neuroscience and psychology have turned this assumption on its head. What if rather than perceiving reality passively, your mind actively predicts it?

Widely acclaimed philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark unpacks this provocative new theory that the brain is a powerful, dynamic prediction engine, mediating our experience of both body and world. From the most mundane experiences to the most sublime, reality as we know it is the complex synthesis of sensory information and expectation. Exploring its fascinating mechanics and remarkable implications for our lives, mental health, and society, Clark nimbly illustrates how the predictive brain sculpts all human experience. Chronic pain and mental illness are shown to involve subtle malfunctions of our unconscious predictions, pointing the way towards more effective, targeted treatments. Under renewed scrutiny, the very boundary between ourselves and the outside world dissolves, showing that we are as entangled with our environments as we are with our onboard memories, thoughts, and feelings. And perception itself is revealed to be something of a controlled hallucination.

Unveiling the extraordinary explanatory power of the predictive brain, The Experience Machine is a mesmerizing window onto one of the most significant developments in our understanding of the mind.

作者简介

安迪·克拉克是萨塞克斯大学的认知哲学教授。他著有六本书，包括《超级思维》、《天生机器人》和《思维软件》。

ANDY CLARK is a Professor of Cognitive Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of six books including Supersizing the Mind, Natural-Born Cyborgs, and Mindware.