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The cost of over-intellectualizing the free-energy principle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Daniel D. Hutto Open the ORCID record for Daniel D. Hutto [Opens in a new window]
Daniel D. Hutto*
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School of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, New South Wales2522, Australia. ddhutto@uow.edu.au https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/daniel_d_hutto
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Abstract

This commentary raises a question about the target article's proposed explanation of what goes on when we think through other minds. It highlights a tension between non-mindreading characterizations of everyday social cognition and the individualist, cognitivist assumptions that target article's explanatory proposal inherits from the predictive processing framework it favours.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e105
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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