The “hierarchical prediction machine” approach proposed by Clark shares with the standard computationalism the postulate of a powerful cognitive unconscious that “does the job.” All the possible options about the current percept are assumed to be computed and ordered as a function of their probability outside of any conscious experience, and, as we understand the approach, conscious thought is nothing else as the passive recipient of the ready-to-use end-result of the computation of multiple probability distributions.
Is consciousness a passive recipient of the end-product of sophisticated unconscious computations?
