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The Predictive System
How Neuroscience Reveals the Hidden Mechanism Behind Perception, Reality and Human Experience. The Revolutionary Discoveries of Friston, Seth, Damasio
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Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35158803
EAN: 9798188166557
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Zustellung: Di, 06.10.2026
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Beschreibung
THE PREDICTIVE SYSTEM. scientifically reveals the hidden machinery behind perception and human experience. What if the brain is not showing you reality, but predicting it. What if perception is not a window onto the world, but a construction shaped by memory, expectation, and emotion. What if many of the things you call "reality" are actually the brain's best guess. >THE PREDICTIVE SYSTEM. explores one of the most important revolutions in contemporary neuroscience: the discovery that perception is not a passive reception of the world, but an active process of prediction, inference, and revision. Drawing on the work of Karl Friston, Anil Seth, Antonio Damasio, Daniel Kahneman, and other leading thinkers, this book reveals how the brain shapes human experience through expectation, memory, emotion, embodiment, and hidden regulatory processes. It shows why the mind does not simply register reality, but constantly interprets and updates an internal model of the world. At the center of this investigation lies a profound question: how much of what we experience as "reality" is actually the brain's best model of reality. This book explores questions such as: Are we seeing the world as it truly is, or as the brain expects it to be. Why do emotion, belief, memory, and past experience influence perception. Why do illusions, cognitive biases, and false memories occur. Can two people inhabit the same world and yet experience different realities. >Understanding how the brain shapes experience can be deeply empowering. It can help you recognize why you react the way you do, why emotions sometimes overpower reason, why certainty can be misleading, and why other people may see the world so differently. This does not make life less human. It makes it more intelligible. And when experience becomes more intelligible, it can become easier to navigate with clarity, perspective, and a little less confusion. The Predictive System belongs to BEYOND LIMITS,. a series devoted to neuroscience, consciousness, and human experience in the light of the latest scientific discoveries. Each volume explores a different frontier of the mind while remaining clear, serious, and accessible. Through this series, Giulia De Ponti. is building a distinctive body of work devoted to consciousness, perception, the brain, and the limits of reductionist thinking. Her books are written for readers who want more than slogans, fashionable simplifications, or pseudoscientific claims disguised as insight. They are for readers who want rigor, clarity, and intellectually serious ideas. This is not a book of mystification or empty self-help promises. It is a serious and accessible guide to one of the defining scientific ideas of our time: that the brain does not merely see reality - it actively predicts it. For readers interested in neuroscience, consciousness, perception, illusion, decision-making, and the hidden mechanisms behind human experience, this book offers a compelling introduction to the predictive mind. You may also find this book valuable if you are interested in psychology, self-understanding, behavioral science, decision-making, the science of consciousness, or the hidden reasons why people see the world differently.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Italienisch
Autor
- Giulia de Ponti
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 320