预测心智进路中的社会认知观

近年来,一种以"预测加工"为核心的社会认知观备受学术界的关注。其基本主张为:社会认知过程就是两个大脑之间持续进行双向预测,实现错误预测最小化并最终达致某种动态耦合的过程。一方面,这种新兴的预测理论在脑与神经科学层面澄清了关于社会感知的机制问题;但另一方面,它还不能构成对社会认知的完备解释,因为社会认知作为一个异常复杂的社会性理解过程,不仅仅是两个大脑之间的双向神经建构的结果,还需要通过主体间动力交互的意义-建构过程来实现。

The Predictive Approach of Social Cognition

Recently,an idea of predictive social cognition has drawn lots of academic attention.It claims that social cognition is an ongoing mutual prediction between two brains,minimizing surprise and generalizing synchrony in the context of two predictive systems.I suggest that this approach clarifies the mechanism of social cognition in terms of neuroscience but fails to provide a satisfactory explanation of social cognition.As a complex process of social understanding,social cognition is not the result of neuro construct,but emerges out from the participatory sense-making of two coupled dynamical systems.