<i>Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification</i><i>*</i>

Siegel, Susanna

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“…One possibility is influence on perception by desires and emotions. For related philosophical discussion, see Siegel 2012, Stokes 2012;. And there is certainly suggestive research in perceptual psychology.…”

Section: Predictive Coding and Cognitive Penetrabilitymentioning

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Noise, uncertainty, and interest: Predictive coding and cognitive penetration

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Stokes

2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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As the various contributions to this special volume will no doubt attest, the predictive coding model of the mind and brain is remarkably ambitious in scope of explanation. For one, its central proponents allege that it offers a single, unified mechanism for phenomena that are traditionally treated as distinct and, accordingly, explained in disparate ways. As Jakob Hohwy writes, Perception, action, and attention are but three different ways of doing the very same thing. All three ways must be balanced carefully with each other in order to get the world right. The unity of conscious perception, the nature of the self, and our knowledge of our private mental world is at heart grounded in our attempts to optimize predictions about our ongoing sensory input. (Hohwy 2013: 2).The mechanism that allegedly unifies these phenomena-prediction error minimization-is also supposed to promise unity across the cognitive sciences. As Andy Clark writes, this framework makes rich and illuminating contact with work in cognitive neuroscience while boasting a firm foundation in computational modeling and Bayesian theory. It thus offers what is arguably the first truly systematic bridge linking three of our most promising tools for understanding mind and reason: cognitive neuroscience, computational modelling, and probabilistic Bayesian approaches to dealing with evidence and uncertainty (Clark, 2013 190-1).Ambition such as this begets excitement, but it should also encourage careful scrutiny. Our general interest is at the interface of two standardly distinguished mental kinds or processescognition and sense perception. Both of the above theorists, as well as others, embrace to some degree a radical consequence of the predictive coding framework, namely, that the cognition/perception distinction will have to be revised in some important ways, if not abandoned outright. An important way to test this feature of the framework, as well as use it to shed new insight 1 This work was thoroughly collaborative and the paper thoroughly co-authored--the order of authors was chosen randomly.

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Section: Predictive Coding and Cognitive Penetrabilitymentioning

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Noise, uncertainty, and interest: Predictive coding and cognitive penetration

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Stokes

2017

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Philosopher Susanna Siegel offers an everyday case of "cognitively penetrated perceptual experiences" [19]: Jill believes Jack is angry with her, so when she looks at him, Jack's face actually presents itself to her as angry. Jill uses this as evidence to confirm her (false) belief that Jack is angry with her.…”

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Do Physicians Have an Ethical Duty to Repair Relationships with So-Called “Difficult” Patients?

2017

AMA Journal of Ethics

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This essay argues that physicians hold primary ethical responsibility for repairing damaged patient-physician relationships. The first section establishes that the patient-physician relationship has an important influence on patient health and argues that physicians' duty to treat should be understood as including a responsibility to repair broken relationships, regardless of which party was "responsible" for the initial tension. The second section argues that the person with more power to repair the relationship also has more responsibility to do so and considers the moral psychology of pain as foundational to conceiving the patient in this case as especially vulnerable and disempowered. The essay concludes with suggestions for clinicians to act on the idea that a healthy patient-physician relationship ought to lie at the center of medicine's moral mission. CaseJohn is a third-year medical student on his first day with a new service during his surgery rotation. On this particular morning, John is going on rounds with the chief resident, Dr. M, and an intern, Dr. S. As the team walks down the hall to the next room, John quickly glances over his rounding sheet for a 48-year-old man, Mr. C. Mr. C had a toe amputation three days ago and suffers from chronic pain and diabetes mellitus type I. He also has a history of using opioids, and his pain medications are being carefully controlled in the hospital.Before they enter the room, the intern Dr. S softly says to Dr. M, "Hey, just as a heads up, I heard this one was feisty last night. Apparently, the attending physician came down hard on his request for more analgesia. The patient was not happy with the refusal and gave the nursing staff a lot of trouble." Dr. M responded, "I heard about that. But he's always been difficult; I saw him in clinic last month." The team then enters the room.

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“…A major objection to PC is that seemings caused by wishful thinking can provide prima facie justification for their content (see, e.g., Markie 2005: 356-7;Siegel 2012). HP will also be subject to such examples, because as Hasan notices, seemings can "be influenced by background cognitive states" (131).…”

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Acquaintance and Fallible Non-Inferential Justification

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2016

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*Cognitive Penetrability and Perceptual Justification**

Cited by 235 publications

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Noise, uncertainty, and interest: Predictive coding and cognitive penetration

Noise, uncertainty, and interest: Predictive coding and cognitive penetration

Do Physicians Have an Ethical Duty to Repair Relationships with So-Called “Difficult” Patients?

Acquaintance and Fallible Non-Inferential Justification

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