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predictive processing
Also known as: Predictive processing frameworks, predictive processing theory
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The evolution of human-type consciousness – a by-product of ... frontiersin.org 3 facts
claimJakob Hohwy and Anil Seth's 2020 predictive processing theory posits that the capacity to predict the body's internal states is the source of consciousness.
claimMichael Graziano's 2019 predictive processing theory emphasizes the importance of the brain's ability to relate to imagined futures as a component of consciousness.
referenceJakob Hohwy and Anil K. Seth published 'Predictive processing as a systematic basis for identifying the neural correlates of consciousness' in Philosophy and the Mind Sciences in 2020, proposing predictive processing as a framework for identifying neural correlates of consciousness.
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Feb 17, 2026 3 facts
claimThe connection between autopoiesis, the free energy principle, and predictive processing provides a framework for understanding the contents of consciousness.
claimCarl Friston, Andy Clark, and Jacob Hohwy describe the relationship between the free energy principle and predictive processing using the concepts of the 'high road' and the 'low road'.
claimLiving systems minimize thermodynamic free energy by maintaining themselves in statistically surprising states, which is equivalent to minimizing prediction error within the predictive processing framework.
Panpsychism and dualism in the science of consciousness - PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Aug 4, 2024 1 fact
claimBioprotopsychism provides a minimalist approach to consciousness via the triad of chemotaxis, efference copy mechanism, and counterfactual active inference, associating conscious states with the amount of information (best guesses) of the brain engaged in unconscious predictive processing.
Consciousness and AI - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Feb 5, 2026 1 fact
claimTheories regarding embodied and situated cognition, predictive processing, and the free energy principle may contribute to understanding the possibility and conditions for consciousness in artificial intelligence.
Non-Reductive Physicalism - Theories of Consciousness theoriesofconsciousness.com 1 fact
claimPredictive processing frameworks explain how the brain's predictive mechanisms generate conscious experience through hierarchical processing.
The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Nov 25, 2024 1 fact
referenceKeller and Mrsic-Flogel (2018) propose that predictive processing functions as a canonical cortical computation.