SELECTED PUBLICATIONS​

• Miller, M., Andersen, M., Schoeller, F. & Kiverstein, J. (forthcoming) Getting a Kick Out of Film: Aesthetic Pleasure and Play in Prediction Error Minimizing Agents. With.
• Schoeller, F., Miller, M., Solomon, R. & Friston, K. (forthcoming) Trust as Extended Control: Active Inference and User Feedback During Human-Robot Collaborations. 
• Ramstead, M., Wiese, W., Miller, M. & Friston, K. (forthcoming) Deep neurophenomenology: An Active Inference Account of Some Features of Conscious Experience and of their Disturbance in Major Depressive Disorder
• Miller, M., Clark, A. Deane G. & Nave, K. (forthcoming). Expecting Ourselves: Embodied Prediction and the Construction of Conscious Experience. In Phenomenal Expectations: New Essays on Predictive Processing and Consciousness, edited by Miller, M., Schlicht, T. & Clark, A. Philosophy and Psychology. ​
• Miller, M. & Markovic, J. (forthcoming). Predicting Emotions: Emotion-Cognition Interactions in the Predictive Brain. In Gouveia, Steven, Mendonca, Dina & Curado, Manuel (eds.), The Philosophy and Science of Predictive Processing, Bloomsbury.
• Deane, G., Miller, M., Wilkinson, S. (2020) Losing Ourselves: Active Inference, Depersonalization and Meditation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2893.
• Miller, M., Clark, A. Deane G. & Nave, K (2020) The Value of Uncertainty. AEON magazine. 
• Nave, K., Deane, G., Miller, M. & Clark, A. (2020). Rewilding the Predictive Brain: Embodied, Emotional and Extended. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science.
• Kiverstein, J., Miller M. & Rietveld E. (2020). Mood as Tuning Predictions: A Neurophenomenological Perspective on Depression. Neuroscience of Consciousness.
• Miller, M., Kiverstein, J. & Rietveld, E. (2020). Embodying Addiction: A Predictive Processing Account. Brain and cognition, 138, 105495.
• Miller, M., & Nave, K. (2020). Slimes and cyborgs: stretching the boundaries of life. Adaptive Behavior, 28(1), 43-44.
• Kiverstein, J., Miller, M. & Rietveld, E. (2017). The Feeling of Grip: Error Dynamics, Novelty and the Predictive Brain. Synthese, 1-23.
• Miller, M., & Clark, A. (2017). Happily Entangled: Prediction, Emotion, and the Embodied Mind. Synthese, 1-17.
• Kiverstein, J., & Miller, M. (2015). The Embodied Brain: Towards a Radical Embodied Cognitive Neuroscience. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 237.
• Kiverstein, J., & Miller, M. (2015). The Cognitive-Emotional Brain is an Embodied and Social Brain. Commentary on Luiz Pessoa. Behavioural and Brain Sciences 38: 26-7​

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EDITED COLLECTIONS

• Phenomenal Expectations: New Essays on Predictive Processing and Consciousness (2021). Edited by Dr. Mark Miller, Prof. Tobias Schlicht & Prof. Andy Clark. Review for Philosophy and Psychology. 

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SELECTED TALKS

• Curiosity in the Predictive Brain. Symposium title: Surprising Play, Interacting Minds and Predictive Brains, with Andreas Roepstorff,, Marc Malmdorf Andersen, Savhannah Schulz and Meredith Bak. Learning through Play and Imagination, Society for Research in Child Development Conference, St. Louis, USA, December 2-4 2022
• Predictive Minds in a Socio-Technological Niche, Keynote at WASP-HS Winter Conference, Lund, Sweden, February 9-11 2021.​
• Rewilding the Predictive Brain: Embodied, Emotional and Extended. University of Toronto's Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Student Association, Jan 10 2020.
• Embodying Addiction. Interview on the podcast Philosophers Chatting with Clinicians. February 11th 2020. https://philsclinschat.podbean.com/e/3- maka/. 
• Hitting the Slopes: Temporal Error Dynamics and the Surprise-Loving Predictive Organism. Keynote at Timescales of Life and Mind Conference. University of Edinburgh, Nov 4-6 2019.
• Mood as Predicting Momentum. Symposium Losing Our Grip: Psychopathology and Embodied Predictive Processing, with Julian Kiverstein, Jelle Bruineberg and Regina Fabry. European Conference on Cognitive Science. Bochum, DE. Sept 2-4 2019. Edinburgh UK. Jan 23 2019. 
• The Gripless Grip: A Predictive Processing Account of Buddhist Awakening, Pint of Science, Edinburgh, UK. May 21 2019.
• Embodying Addiction: A Predictive Processing Account, keynote at Beyond the Brain: Academic Conference at the University of Edinburgh on Reconceptualizing Mental Disorders, University of Edinburgh, UK. May 9-10 2019.
• Still Happily Entangled: Prediction, Emotion and Embodied Cognition Philosophy, Psychology and Informatics Group Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh UK. Jan 23 2019.
• Feelings Gone Wild, at 2nd Annual X-Spect Workshop, University of Edinburgh. Nov 02 2018.
• Fleshing Out Visual Consciousness: Philosophy, Neuropsychology and the Two-Visual Systems, at Philosophy of Mind, Language, and Cognitive Science Graduate Conference. Western University, Canada. May, 14-16th 2018.
• Predictive Coding and the Bodily Self, at 25th Annual University of Waterloo Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference. Waterloo, Canada. March, 8th 2018
• Compassion and Wisdom in the Predictive Brain. A Patient's Tale: compassion in our NHS? Global Compassion Initiative, Royal College of Physicians. Edinburgh UK. March, 13 2017.
• The Puzzle of Curiosity: Why Would a Prediction Error Minimizing Brain Move Agents to Seek Out Novelty? Presented with Julian Kiverstein at Worlding the Brain: Predictive Processing as an Interdisciplinary Concept. University of Amsterdam, NL. November, 16 2016.
• ​Embodying the Brain. 4th Global Experts Meeting on Neuropharmacology. San Antonio, USA. September, 15-17 2016.
• Predictive Brains and Compassionate Hearts. TEDx Compassion and Courage Salon. Edinburgh, UK. June, 28 2016.
• Predictive Emotions, Emotional Predicting. The Second Annual Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions. Edinburgh, UK. July, 15-17 2015.
• Is the Brain a Prediction Machine? International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology Meeting. Montreal, CA. July, 5-10 2015.
• Affective Realism: The Light and Dark Side of Seeing-With-Feeling. The World as We Feel It - Talking About Emotions Across the Disciplines Lecture Series. University of Edinburgh, UK. April, 28 2015.
• The Embodied Brain.The Second Symposium on Embodied Cognition and Performance at The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour Conference. Kent, UK. April, 22 2015.
• Is Empathy (Radically) Embodied? Cognition of Self and Other: Perceptual and Social Processes. University of Stirling Psychology Symposium, UK. November, 13 2014.

RECENT TEACHING

• Lecturer Introduction to Cognitive Science (University of Edinburgh​, Undergraduate Cognitive Science Course 2018, 2019, 2020).
• Organizer and Lecturer Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Beneficial A.I. Society & Cognitive Science Society at University of Edinburgh 2020)​
• Lecturer Entangled Predictions: Introduction to Embodied Predictive Processing (Tubingen University, Undergraduate Proseminar Cognitive Science 2019).
• Lecturer Advanced Topics in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognitive Science (University of Edinburgh, Graduate Philosophy, Psychology and Languages Sciences Course 2019).
• Lecturer CogLab: Seminars in Contemporary Cognitive Science (University of Edinburgh, Graduate Cognitive Science Course 2019)
• Guest lecturer Perception, Action and Cognition (University of Edinburgh, Undergraduate Neuroscience Honours Course 2019)
• Guest Lecturer Philosophy Skills (University of Edinburgh, Undergraduate Philosophy Modules 2018)

• Guest lecturer Advanced Topics in Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition (University of Edinburgh, Undergraduate Neuroscience Honours Course 2017)
• Guest Lecturer Introduction to Predictive Processing (University of Edinburgh, Undergraduate Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION/SERVICE

• Postdoctoral Researcher, 4-Year European Research Council project Expecting Ourselves: Embodied Prediction and the Construction of Conscious Experience, University of Sussex, UK.
• Organizational Committee, Nested Minds Network.
• Project Leader, Cyber-Hearts: Augmented Emotions Research Group.​​
• Organizer, Virtual Philosophy, Psychology and Informatics Group Seminar Series. University of Edinburgh, UK.
• Organizer, Philosophy of Psychiatry Research Group, University of Sussex, UK.

Click here to listen to my new podcast Philosophy and Cognitive Science: The Predictive Brain at The Scientistt!

Emotion & Prediction Workshop 2021: Active Inference and the Paradox of Horror

This is a plenary talk at the Science of Consciousness conference 2020 entitled Losing Ourselves: Active Inference, Depersonalization and Enlightenment. 

This is a talk presented at the Corpus Curiosum Seminar Series entitled Why Do We Need Philosophy in Neuroscience? 

This is a podcast with Philosophers Chatting with Clinicians about my recent paper Embodying Addiction: A Predictive Processing Account.

This is a TEDx talk presented at the Edinburgh Salon entitled Predictive Brains and Compassionate Hearts.

A talk for The World As We Feel It workshop entitled Affective Realism: The Light and Dark Side of Seeing-With-Feeling.

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