bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 16, 2026
Maximillian Greenwald, Peter Thestrup Waade, Eren Kafadar et al.
preprint
Abstract Serotonergic psychedelics (SP) are increasingly used in clinical research and naturalistic settings, but their psychotic-like side effects, including persisting perceptual abnormalities (PPAs), are poorly understood. Psychosis-associated hallucinations are associated with susceptibility to conditioned hallucinations and computationally-estimated overweighting of perceptual...
August 16, 2026
Morten Overgaard, Martin Dietz, Peter Thestrup Waade
preprint
Scientific theories of consciousness are typically evaluated by comparing empirical findings across experimental paradigms. Such comparisons implicitly assume that different paradigms provide commensurable evidence and do not systematically favour particular theoretical interpretations. Here, we test this assumption using the updated ConTraSt database, comprising 518 published consciousness...
PsyArXiv
May 29, 2026
Zefan Zheng, Robert Chis-Ciure, Peter Thestrup Waade et al.
1 citation
preprint
Consciousness science is fragmented, and empirical investigations are confined within each theory of consciousness’ (TOC) framework. Proliferating ToCs accumulate anomalies without progress, operating orthogonally. The principle of recurrency – functional and architectural – offers a unifying, mechanistic scaffold for consciousness to arise. We show that all theories tacitly invoke feedback...
PLoS Computational Biology
October 1, 2023
Christoffer Lundbak Olesen, Peter Thestrup Waade, Larissa Albantakis et al.
The Free Energy Principle (FEP) and Integrated Information Theory (IIT) are two ambitious theoretical approaches. The first aims to make a formal framework for describing self-organizing and life-like systems in general, and the second attempts a mathematical theory of conscious experience based on the intrinsic properties of a system. They are each concerned with complementary aspects of the...
Review of Philosophy and Psychology
August 14, 2021
N. Nikolova, Peter Thestrup Waade, Karl Friston et al.
The mainstream science of consciousness offers a few predominate views of how the brain gives rise to awareness. Chief among these are the Higher Order Thought Theory, Global Neuronal Workspace Theory, Integrated Information Theory, and hybrids thereof. In parallel, rapid development in predictive processing approaches have begun to outline concrete mechanisms by which interoceptive inference...