How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience DOI Creative Commons
Chris Fields, Mahault Albarracin, Karl Friston

et al.

Neuroscience of Consciousness, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2025(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract This paper examines the constraints that free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models attentional control and imaginative experiences, including episodic memory planning. We first rehearse classical quantum formulations FEP, focusing their application to multi-component systems, in which only some components interact directly with external environment. In particular, we discuss role internal boundaries have structure Markov blankets, hence function as information channels between components. then show how this formal supports experience, a focus (i) experience can employ spatio-temporal object-recognition reference frames employed ordinary, non-imaginative (ii) be internally generated but still surprising. conclude by discussing implementation, phenomenology, phylogeny implications large state trait variability humans.

Language: Английский

How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience DOI Creative Commons
Chris Fields, Mahault Albarracin, Karl Friston

et al.

Neuroscience of Consciousness, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 2025(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2025

Abstract This paper examines the constraints that free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models attentional control and imaginative experiences, including episodic memory planning. We first rehearse classical quantum formulations FEP, focusing their application to multi-component systems, in which only some components interact directly with external environment. In particular, we discuss role internal boundaries have structure Markov blankets, hence function as information channels between components. then show how this formal supports experience, a focus (i) experience can employ spatio-temporal object-recognition reference frames employed ordinary, non-imaginative (ii) be internally generated but still surprising. conclude by discussing implementation, phenomenology, phylogeny implications large state trait variability humans.

Language: Английский

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