For many years, the dominant theoretical framework guiding research into the neural origins
of perceptual experience has been provided by hierarchical feedforward models, in which …

From the noisy information bombarding our senses, our brains must construct percepts that
are veridical–reflecting the true state of the world–and informative–conveying what we did …

Recent clinical trials show that psychedelics such as LSD and psilocybin can be given safely
in controlled conditions, and can cause lasting psychological benefits with one or two …

Scientific thinking about the minds of humans and other animals has been transformed by
the idea that the brain is Bayesian. A cornerstone of this idea is that agents set the balance …

How profoundly can humans change their own minds? In this paper we offer a unifying
account of deconstructive meditation under the predictive processing view. We start from …

The search for the neural correlates of consciousness is in need of a systematic, principled
foundation that can endow putative neural correlates with greater predictive and explanatory …

Adversarial collaboration has been championed as the gold standard for resolving scientific
disputes but has gained relatively limited traction in neuroscience and allied fields. In this …

The brain is a predictive machine. Converging data suggests a diametric predictive strategy
from autism spectrum disorders (ASD) to schizophrenic spectrum disorders (SSD). Whereas …

What is the function of cognition? On one influential account, cognition evolved to co-
ordinate behaviour with environmental change or complexity (Godfrey-Smith in Complexity …

Predictive Processing theories hold that the mind's core aim is to minimize prediction-error
about its experiences. But prediction-error minimization can be'hacked', by placing oneself …