title: Presence, objecthood, and the phenomenology of predictive perception.
abstract: Can perceptual presence be explained by counterfactually-rich predictive models linking perception and action? Considering an unusually rich range of responses to this idea has led me to (1) re-emphasize the core conceptual commitment of "predictive processing of sensorimotor contingencies" (PPSMC) to predictive model-based perception, (2) reconsider the relationship between presence and objecthood, and (3) refine the phenomenological target by differentiating between perceptual presence and the phenomenology of absence-of-presence, or "phenomenal unreality." It turns out that this requires blue-sky thinking.
authors: a Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, School of Engineering and Informatics , University of Sussex , Brighton , United Kingdom.
authors: Anil K
authors: AK
authors: Seth
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation
keywords: Active inference; Objecthood; Perceptual presence; Predictive processing