Restructuring insight: An integrative review of insight in problem-solving, meditation, psychotherapy, delusions and psychedelics

K Tulver, KK Kaup, R Laukkonen, J Aru - Consciousness and cognition, 2023 - Elsevier
Occasionally, a solution or idea arrives as a sudden understanding-an insight. Insight has
been considered an “extra” ingredient of creative thinking and problem-solving. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] An active inference perspective for the amygdala complex

R Sladky, D Kargl, W Haubensak, C Lamm - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
The amygdala is a heterogeneous network of subcortical nuclei with central importance in
cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Various experimental designs in human psychology …

Osteopathic care as (En) active inference: a theoretical framework for developing an integrative hypothesis in osteopathy

JE Esteves, F Cerritelli, J Kim, KJ Friston - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Osteopathy is a person-centred healthcare discipline that emphasizes the body's structure-
function interrelationship—and its self-regulatory mechanisms—to inform a whole-person …

[HTML][HTML] On efficient computation in active inference

A Paul, N Sajid, L Da Costa, A Razi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Biological agents demonstrate a remarkable proficiency in calibrating appropriate scales of
planning and evaluation when interacting with their environments. It follows logically that …

Self-boundary dissolution in meditation: A phenomenological investigation

O Nave, FM Trautwein, Y Ataria, Y Dor-Ziderman… - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
A fundamental aspect of the sense of self is its pre-reflective dimension specifying the self as
a bounded and embodied knower and agent. Being a constant and tacit feature structuring …

Ambient smart environments: affordances, allostasis, and wellbeing

B White, M Miller - Synthese, 2024 - Springer
In this paper we assess the functionality and therapeutic potential of ambient smart
environments. We argue that the language of affordances alone fails to do justice to the …

[PDF][PDF] Consciousness in active inference: Deep self-models, other minds, and the challenge of psychedelic-induced ego-dissolution

G Deane - Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Predictive processing approaches to brain function are increasingly delivering promise for
illuminating the computational underpinnings of a wide range of phenomenological states. It …

What it is like to be a bit: an integrated information decomposition account of emergent mental phenomena

AI Luppi, PAM Mediano, FE Rosas… - Neuroscience of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
A central question in neuroscience concerns the relationship between consciousness and
its physical substrate. Here, we argue that a richer characterization of consciousness can be …

The radically embodied conscious cybernetic Bayesian brain: from free energy to free will and back again

A Safron - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Drawing from both enactivist and cognitivist perspectives on mind, I propose that explaining
teleological phenomena may require reappraising both “Cartesian theaters” and mental …

Expecting some action: Predictive processing and the construction of conscious experience

K Nave, G Deane, M Miller, A Clark - Review of Philosophy and …, 2022 - Springer
Predictive processing has begun to offer new insights into the nature of conscious
experience—but the link is not straightforward. A wide variety of systems may be described …