Yukie Nagai | “Embodied predictive processing: toward a unified account of human intelligence”

Keynote speech \ Manfred Eigen lecture theatre

Predictive processing has emerged as a unifying framework for understanding brain function, yet it often underestimates the role of the body and environment. In this talk, I introduce Embodied Predictive Processing, an extended framework that emphasizes the co-development of brain, body, and environment through active perception and action. This perspective reconceptualizes intelligence as arising from continuous interactions between neural dynamics, bodily processes, and environmental structure. I will discuss how this framework is supported by a range of robotics experiments, highlighting its potential to bridge biological and artificial systems in understanding human intelligence.

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