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Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind By Clark Andy. Oxford University Press. 2016. £ 19.99 (hb). 424 pp. ISBN 9780190217013
Our understanding of ‘how the brain works’ has expanded enormously in recent decades. Nevertheless, the relatively new field of neuroscience is still searching for a ‘unified theory’ of brain function – one that can explain how the brain finesses perception, action and attention using a more general (neurocomputational) framework.
In his engaging new book, philosopher Andy Clark sketches out what is arguably the best current contender...