Projecting the real through active inference: a unified model of reality construction from neuronal dynamics to social consensus a neuroscientific framework for psychopathology

Frontiers in Psychiatry | New and Recent Articles ·
Mind & Mental Health Switzerland

How does the brain transform a chaotic stream of sensory signals into a stable, shared experience of reality? This theoretical paper proposes that the brain does not passively receive the world, but actively projects it – it continuously generates predictions about sensory inputs and updates its internal model when predictions fail, a process formally described by the free energy principle and…

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