If perception is inference, what is the self inferring?
What it argues
Perception is controlled hallucination, corrected by sensory prediction error, and the self is a prediction about the body's regulation rather than a thing perceived. The account is predictive-processing based and makes the self a process with a function: keeping the organism viable.
The probe
Find one place today where you perceived what you expected rather than what was there. Reading a familiar word wrong is enough.
The source
Being You — Anil Seth, 2021. The link goes to the text or to a catalogue record for it, not to a summary. This one is a catalogue record: the entry gives you the question and the probe, not the argument in the author's words.
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