What might interoceptive inference reveal about consciousness?
N. Nikolova, Peter Thestrup Waade, Karl Friston, Micah Allen
Review of Philosophy and Psychology August 14, 2021 DOI: 10.1007/s13164-021-00580-3 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
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| Key findings | Predictive processing approaches offer concrete mechanisms for how interoceptive inference shapes selfhood, affect, and perception, potentially advancing understanding of consciousness. |
Abstract
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 shapes selfhood, affect, and exteroceptive perception. Here, we consider these new approaches in terms of what they might offer our empirical, phenomenological, and philosophical understanding of consciousness and its neurobiological roots.