Table of Contents

Preface: Meat That Predicts
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Guessing Games

Part I: The Power of Prediction
Chapter 1: Prediction Machines
Chapter 2: Adjusting The Volume (Noise, Signal, Attention)
Chapter 3: The Imaginarium

Part II: Embodying Prediction
Chapter 4: Prediction for Action
Chapter 5: Sculpting the Flow
Chapter 6: Engaging the world
Chapter 7: Expecting Ourselves

Part III: Scaffolding Prediction
Chapter 8: The Lazy Predictive Brain
Chapter 9: Being Human
Chapter 10: The Future of Prediction

Appendix 1: Bare Bayes
Appendix 2: The Free Energy Formulation
References
Index

About the Author

Andy Clark is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, at Edinburgh University in Scotland. He is the author of Being There (1997), Mindware (2001), Natural-Born Cyborgs (2003), and Supersizing the Mind (2008). His interests include artificial intelligence, embodied cognition, robotics, and the predictive mind. In 2018 he was profiled in The New
Yorker.

Reviews

"Surfing Uncertainty will be a much discussed and seminal work in the field of the philosophy of cognitive science." -- David D. Hutto, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
"A stimulating read for anyone interested in the intersection of neuroscience and philosophy of mind from a scientific perspective." --Library Journal
"A wonderful book...Clark's Surfing Uncertainty will become an essential point of departure for philosophers and cognitive scientists trying to come to grips with the apparatus of predictive processing." -- Metascience
"This is a truly important book. It is evocatively written and reflects a truly gargantuan amount of work. It sets the stage for future debates not only about the empirical merits of Bayesian characterizations of human cognition, but also the broader philosophical picture in which such Bayesian characterizations are embedded. I predict that many of us will be reading, discussing, and analysing this book in the months and years to come." --British Journal
for the Philosophy of Science