Volume 36, Issue 3, September 2021
Sergio Cermeño-Aínsa
Pages 341-360
Predictive coding and the strong thesis of cognitive penetrability
In this paper, I discuss the strong thesis of cognitive penetrability (CPs), to wit, th at the perceptual states (P) of a subject (S) are pervasively influenced, affected, or caused by cognitive factors (C) as expectations, memories, thoughts, goals, and so on, at all levels of perceptual processing. I argue that following the predictive coding models of perception (PC), the strong thesis of cognitive penetrability is to be expected.