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posted on 2022-08-23, 07:23 authored by RICARDO AUGUSTO PERERARecent accounts of cognition suggest that the brain implements a Predictive Processing mechanism. This thesis investigates how this framework could be applied to controversial domains that have been historically associated with a rival paradigm, such as human perception, language and social cognition. Using both philosophical and experimental tools, I argue that the same fundamental mechanism based on predictions and uncertainty is better in many respects.