The inner screen model of consciousness: applying the free energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience
April 20, 2023 Maxwell J D Ramstead, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer et al. 15 citations preprint
This paper presents a model of consciousness that follows directly from the free- energy principle (FEP). We first rehearse the classical and quantum formulations of the FEP. In particular, we consider the “inner screen hypothesis” that follows from the quantum information theoretic version of the FEP. We then review applications of the FEP to the known sparse (nested and hierarchical)...