Predicition, emergence, and regulation: A philosophical essay on EPIC-Model

Abstract

From a philosophical viewpoint, this paper aims to interpret the ‘Embodied Predictive Interoception Coding Model’ which is developed in cognitive science. Based on the concept ‘free energy’ applied, by Karl Friston, as a model of information processing in human body, Lisa Feldman Barret forthward proposes an interpretation of emotions as social reality, which should be considered within the social ontology discussed by John Searle and Francesco Guala. Defending emergentism of voluntary behavior in this context, I argue that ‘freedom’ is understood as emotion of subject acquired from reliable and credible conditions between environment and self.