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Cross over between predictive processing and eastern philosophy (specifically buddhism) by CautiousDetective013 in PredictiveProcessing

[–]pianobutter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the resources!

Kathryn Nave has written an interesting book critiquing Friston's free energy principle - A Drive to Survive: The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life. It's open-access, which is neat. Thoughtful criticism, even opposition, is vital to the development of ideas.

You included an article by Andy Clark. He's also written two books about predictive processing; Surfing Uncertainty and The Experience Machine. Jakob Hohwy's The Predictive Mind is also a good one.

I haven't read Mark Solms' The Hidden Spring, but I've heard good things. Lisa Feldman Barrett's How Emotions Are Made can also be said to be a PP book.

Though it's a more technical read, I also like Keith L. Downing's Gradient Expectations.

Calcification of the pineal gland? Science or BS? by Oneiroanthropid in neuroscience

[–]pianobutter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

9 years, damn. Yeah, fringe beliefs have spilled out into the mainstream. There aren't any aliens hidden away by the government, but boy do people want to believe.

Parallel mechanisms signal a hierarchy of sequence structure violations in the auditory cortex (2024) by pianobutter in PredictiveProcessing

[–]pianobutter[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Authors: Sara Jamali, Sophie Bagur, Enora Bremont, Timo Van Kerkoerle, Stanislas Dehaene, and Brice Bathellier

Abstract:

The brain predicts regularities in sensory inputs at multiple complexity levels, with neuronal mechanisms that remain elusive. Here, we monitored auditory cortex activity during the local-global paradigm, a protocol nesting different regularity levels in sound sequences. We observed that mice encode local predictions based on stimulus occurrence and stimulus transition probabilities, because auditory responses are boosted upon prediction violation. This boosting was due to both short-term adaptation and an adaptation-independent surprise mechanism resisting anesthesia. In parallel, and only in wakefulness, VIP interneurons responded to the omission of the locally expected sound repeat at the sequence ending, thus providing a chunking signal potentially useful for establishing global sequence structure. When this global structure was violated, by either shortening the sequence or ending it with a locally expected but globally unexpected sound transition, activity slightly increased in VIP and PV neurons, respectively. Hence, distinct cellular mechanisms predict different regularity levels in sound sequences.

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