The Phenomenology of Reading — A Predictive Coding Perspective

<p>Because of the buzz around ChatGPT, I&rsquo;ve been thinking about its nature as a generative text predictor and how humans might be similar in some ways. Not because biological circuits in our brains mimic the Transformer architecture (as far as I know, they don&rsquo;t) but because the brain has been proposed to be a generative prediction machine for sensory inputs.</p> <p>As predictive processing theories have also been linked to subjective experience, I believe this provides an interesting lens through which to analyze the phenomenology of reading. As in my previous articles, when I say consciousness, I&rsquo;m referring to phenomenal consciousness (see</p> <p><a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/the-phenomenology-of-reading-a-predictive-coding-perspective-6fd71a330c13"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>