Review of 'Surfing uncertainty : prediction, action, and embodied mind' on Goodreads
4 stars
An enthusiastic and rigorous roundup of the "predictive processing" view of the nervous system, pulling together conceptual, imaging, psych, and computational/robotics studies to make the case for a multi-layered bi-directional feedback model (no surprise yet) at all levels where the key insight is that bottom-up feedback to higher generative models takes the form of dynamically-context-weighted prediction error signals.
Really excellent wide-ranging applications are given from bootstrapping learning from sensations, motor control to feelings to language, to schizophrenia to autism to visual tracking and relying on other humans... there's a lot more in here, jargon heavy but engaging reading within that.