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The cost of over-intellectualizing the free-energy principle

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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… Click to show full abstract

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.

Keywords: free energy; energy principle; cost intellectualizing; intellectualizing free

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2020

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