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The senses considered as perceptual systems

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Minds, Brains, and Programs

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Defining virtual reality: dimensions determining telepresence

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Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science

TL;DR: This target article critically examines this "hierarchical prediction machine" approach, concluding that it offers the best clue yet to the shape of a unified science of mind and action.
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The Theory of Event Coding (TEC): a framework for perception and action planning.

TL;DR: A new framework for a more adequate theoretical treatment of perception and action planning is proposed, in which perceptual contents and action plans are coded in a common representational medium by feature codes with distal reference, showing that the main assumptions are well supported by the data.
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Risk management in a dynamic society: a modelling problem

Jens Rasmussen
- 01 Nov 1997 - 
TL;DR: It is argued that risk management must be modelled by cross-disciplinary studies, considering risk management to be a control problem and serving to represent the control structure involving all levels of society for each particular hazard category, and that this requires a system-oriented approach based on functional abstraction rather than structural decomposition.