Can predictive coding explain past experiences?

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Can predictive coding explain past experiences?

LANG, Martin and Radek KUNDT

Basic information

Original name

Can predictive coding explain past experiences?

Authors

LANG, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Radek KUNDT (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

London, 3 pp. Religion, Brain & Behavior, roč. 7, č. 1, s. 71-73, 2017

Publisher

Routledge

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Survey and educational texts

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00095850

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISSN

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1150332

UT WoS

000394455000009

Keywords in English

religious experience; hierarchical predictive coding; cognitive science of religion

Abstract

In the original language

In their target article, Taves and Asprem suggest disassembling religious experiences into events, and studying the formation and interpretation of religious experiences using the approach of cognitive science. We support such an approach and especially embrace using experimental methods to better understand how religious experiences can be generated. However, we are concerned with the feasibility of using first-person narratives to reconstruct “originatory events.” The study of unusual experiences has not been prominent in the cognitive science of religion (CSR), as the authors note, because of “the difficulties inherent in the use of first-person narratives.” Although Taves and Asprem try to address some of these difficulties (e.g., bias in recollecting past events), there is a host of remaining issues that might significantly impede the attempt to rehabilitate the first-person accounts as a prime data source for CSR. We identify and outline three crucial problems and suggest that clarifying these issues might advance the approach proposed by Taves and Asprem.

Links

EE2.3.20.0048, research and development project

Name: Laboratoř pro experimentální výzkum náboženství

Cite

LANG, Martin and Radek KUNDT. Can predictive coding explain past experiences? London: Routledge, 2017, 3 pp. Religion, Brain & Behavior, roč. 7, č. 1, s. 71-73. ISSN 2153-599X. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1150332.

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LANG, Martin and Radek KUNDT. \textit{Can predictive coding explain past experiences?}. London: Routledge, 2017, 3 pp. Religion, Brain \&{} Behavior, roč. 7, č. 1, s. 71-73. ISSN~2153-599X. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2016.1150332.

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