About Expecting Ourselves
Expecting Ourselves is an interdisciplinary investigation into the nature of conscious experience in the predictive brain.
Expecting Ourselves Description
X-SPECT is a new 4-year ERC-funded project based at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. The project is hosted by Eidyn, Edinburgh Philosophy's interdisciplinary research hub.
The full project title is “Expecting Ourselves: Embodied Prediction and the Construction of Conscious Experience”. It aims to leverage recent work on the predictive brain as a way of shedding new light on the nature and possibility of conscious experience. A secondary, but crucial, aim is to relate the resulting story to existing conjectures concerning the neural correlates of conscious experience.
Project website: http://www. x-spect.org/
Project Team:
Principal Investigator: Prof. Andy Clark
Co-Investigator: Dr. David Carmel (Psychology, University of Edinburgh)
Post-doctoral Fellow: Dr. Sam Wilkinson
PhD Students: George Deane and (starting September 2017) Kathryn Nave
Project Network: Prof Lars Muckli (Neuroscience, Glasgow University), Professor Philippe Schyns (Neuroscience, Glasgow University), Professor Anil Seth (Neuroscience, University of Sussex), Prof Karl Friston (Neuroimaging, UCL), Professor Andreas Roepstorff (Neuroscience, Aarhus University, Denmark).