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“Through others we become ourselves”: The dialectics of predictive coding and active inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 May 2020

Dimitris Bolis Open the ORCID record for Dimitris Bolis [Opens in a new window]  and
Leonhard Schilbach Open the ORCID record for Leonhard Schilbach [Opens in a new window]
Dimitris Bolis
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Independent Max Planck Research Group for Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804Munich-Schwabing, Germany. dimitris_bolis@psych.mpg.de leonhard_schilbach@psych.mpg.de https://sites.google.com/site/dimitrisbolis/ https://www.leonhardschilbach.de/english.html International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Munich, Germany Munich Medical Research School (MMRS), Dekanat der Medizinischen Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 80336Munich, Germany
Leonhard Schilbach
Affiliation:
Independent Max Planck Research Group for Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, 80804Munich-Schwabing, Germany. dimitris_bolis@psych.mpg.de leonhard_schilbach@psych.mpg.de https://sites.google.com/site/dimitrisbolis/ https://www.leonhardschilbach.de/english.html International Max Planck Research School for Translational Psychiatry (IMPRS-TP), Munich, Germany LVR Klinikum Düsseldorf/Kliniken der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, 40629Düsseldorf, Germany
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Abstract

Thinking through other minds creatively situates the free-energy principle within real-life cultural processes, thereby enriching both sociocultural theories and Bayesian accounts of cognition. Here, shifting the attention from thinking-through to becoming-with, we suggest complementing such an account by focusing on the empirical, computational, and conceptual investigation of the multiscale dynamics of social interaction.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e93
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