This paper formulates the action of psychedelics by integrating the free-energy principle and
entropic brain hypothesis. We call this formulation relaxed beliefs under psychedelics …

Predictive coding offers a potentially unifying account of cortical function--postulating that the
core function of the brain is to minimize prediction errors with respect to a generative model …

The goal of this paper is to promote the idea that including semantic and goal-oriented
aspects in future 6G networks can produce a significant leap forward in terms of system …

The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain,
cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of …

Philosopher Ned Block argues in this book that there is a" joint in nature" between
perception and cognition and that by exploring the nature of that joint, one can solve …

Major technology companies are investing significant sums of money in the creation of the
metaverse whose main feature will be the fusion between the virtual world and the physical …

This perspective describes predictive processing as a computational framework for
understanding cortical function in the context of emerging evidence, with a focus on sensory …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

L'Oxford English Dictionary ha eletto «posttruth» neologismo dell'anno del 2016, in
concomitanza con la crisi politico-culturale del Brexit e l'insediamento di Trump alla Casa …

The active inference framework, and in particular its recent formulation as a partially
observable Markov decision process (POMDP), has gained increasing popularity in recent …