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Andy Clark

Professor of Cognitive Philosophy · University of Sussex

Brighton, UK

Research Areas

ConsciousnessPhilosophyPredictive Processing

About

Philosopher and cognitive scientist known for the extended mind thesis and his work on predictive processing. He argues that cognition extends beyond the brain into the body and environment, reshaping how we understand conscious agents.

Publications

  • Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind
  • The Experience Machine: How Our Minds Predict and Shape Reality
  • Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action, and Cognitive Extension
  • Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

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Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness (HOT)

Rosenthal and Lau's framework proposing consciousness requires higher-order mental representations about our own mental states.

Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

Penrose and Hameroff's quantum theory proposing consciousness arises from gravitational self-collapse in neuronal microtubules.

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)

The search for the minimal neuronal mechanisms jointly sufficient for any one specific conscious percept.

Idealism in Philosophy of Mind

Bernardo Kastrup's analytical idealism and the philosophical tradition arguing consciousness is fundamental, not matter.

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