Fame in the predictive brain: a deflationary approach to explaining consciousness in the prediction error minimization framework
Synthese January 29, 2020 K. Dołęga, Joe E. Dewhurst
The proposal that probabilistic inference and unconscious hypothesis testing are central to information processing in the brain has been steadily gaining ground in cognitive neuroscience and associated fields. One popular version of this proposal is the new theoretical framework of predictive processing or prediction error minimization (PEM), which couples unconscious hypothesis testing with...