Active Inference as a Computational Framework for Consciousness
Review of Philosophy and Psychology August 10, 2021 M. Vilas, R. Auksztulewicz, Lucia Melloni
Recently, the mechanistic framework of active inference has been put forward as a principled foundation to develop an overarching theory of consciousness which would help address conceptual disparities in the field (Wiese 2018; Hohwy and Seth 2020). For that promise to bear out, we argue that current proposals resting on the active inference scheme need refinement to become a process theory of...