Diabetes-associated cognitive impairment (DACI) is a common complication of diabetes mellitus (DM) that affects the central nervous system. Cognitive impairment, such as learning and memory impairment, and even dementia, is the main clinical manifestation of DACI. Unfortunately, there is no effective means by which to delay the cognitive symptoms of DM. Evidence has shown that […]
Published on July 23, 2020
Why don’t prediction-error minimizers waste away in maximally predictable—but maximally boring—environments? Van de Cruys, Friston, and Clark [1] offer an elegant and even poetic answer: a bias toward ‘optimism’. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he […]
Published on July 23, 2020
Sun and Firestone [1] argue that the Dark Room Problem poses an important challenge to the ambitions of predictive processing (PP) accounts; specifically, they worry that a standard response threatens the story with triviality, asserting merely that prediction-driven agents avoid dark, food-free corners because they ‘predict that they will not stay in them’. Read Full […]
Published on July 23, 2020
