Psychedelic substances elicit powerful, uncanny conscious experiences that are thought to
possess therapeutic value. In those who undergo them, these altered states of …

This paper proposes an account of neurocognitive activity without leveraging the notion of
neural representation. Neural representation is a concept that results from assuming that the …

Perceptual experience usually comes with “phenomenal force”, a strong sense that it reflects
reality as it is. Some philosophers have argued that it is in virtue of possessing phenomenal …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the Predictive Processing
framework (hereinafter PP) and to identify its basic theoretical difficulties. For this reason, it …

Karl Friston's free-energy principle casts agents as self-evidencing through active inference.
This implies that decision-making, planning and information-seeking are, in a generic …

The aim of this paper is to present the ontic approach to the normativity of cognitive functions
and mechanisms, which is directly related to the understanding of biological normativity in …

Visual perception has always been the focus in design research. In order to systematically
summarize the research streams and frontier issues related to visual perception since the …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the Predictive Processing
framework (hereinafter PP) and to identify its basic theoretical difficulties. For this reason, it …