Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Rather than summarize I'll just pull a key quote from this terrific article featuring Andy Clark, a well-known expert in the field: "You experience a structured world because you expect a structured world, and the 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."

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