What might interoceptive inference reveal about consciousness?
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...