Book contents
- Looking Ahead
- Looking Ahead
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Chapter 1 Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
- Chapter 2 Defining Prediction
- Chapter 3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Part II Psychological Theories
- Part III Mathematical Theories
- Part IV Neurobiological Theories
- Part V The Future of Prediction
- Notes
- Index
Chapter 1 - Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
A Paradigm Shift
from Part I - Setting the Stage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 March 2025
- Looking Ahead
- Looking Ahead
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Setting the Stage
- Chapter 1 Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
- Chapter 2 Defining Prediction
- Chapter 3 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Part II Psychological Theories
- Part III Mathematical Theories
- Part IV Neurobiological Theories
- Part V The Future of Prediction
- Notes
- Index
Summary
The beginning of the third millennium, starting in the early noughties and increasing in strength throughout the 2010s, has seen a large shift in theoretical focus in the mind sciences. In what might be called the predictive revolution or the predictive turn, many researchers in the psychological and brain sciences have come to consider the human mind a ‘predictive engine’ or ‘prediction machine.’ Like its predecessor, the cognitive revolution, more than half a century before, the predictive revolution is grand in ambition. It tries to explain all mental processes within one common framework. In this unified theory, the functioning of the mind is no longer best explained as an information processor: Minds have become prediction systems. The predictive revolution promises to reconcile cognition and behavior as the intrinsically connected two sides of the same coin serving human interactions with the environment.
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- Looking AheadThe New Science of the Predictive Mind, pp. 3 - 11Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025