Models of consciousness should account for the phenomenology of subjective experience, including perceptual illusions. The Moon Illusion is a paradigmatic example that has yet to be accounted for. The Moon often appears larger near the perceptual horizon and smaller high in the sky, though the visual angle subtended is invariant. We show how this illusion can result from the optimization of a...
We summarize our recently introduced Projective Consciousness Model (PCM) (Rudrauf et al., 2017) and relate it to outstanding conceptual issues in the theory of consciousness. The PCM combines a projective geometrical model of the perspectival phenomenological structure of the field of consciousness with a variational Free Energy minimization model of active inference, yielding an account of...
We introduce a mathematical model of embodied consciousness, the Projective Consciousness Model (PCM), which is based on the hypothesis that the spatial field of consciousness (FoC) is structured by a projective geometry and under the control of a process of active inference. The FoC in the PCM combines multisensory evidence with prior beliefs in memory and frames them by selecting points of...