Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our understanding of these experiences and also exceptional occurances – like how hallucinations happen or how sensing your own body can be disturbed in dissociative states.
Research in the area of predictive processing has greatly expanded over the last decades and revolutionized our understanding of how the brain creates our experiences. It proposes that perceptions of ourselves and of our surroundings are not constructed by the information coming in, but rather actively created from the inside out and only corrected based on the incoming data.
In this episode we explore predictive processing and conscious experience with Dr. Anil Seth. Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science and Co-Director of the Program on Brain, Mind and Consciousness at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. His best-selling book Being You – A New Science of Consciousness offers a fascinating and accessible look into how we predict and adjust our realities and how different parts of our traditional realities can unravel.
Timestamps 0:00 How the brain creates our perceptions (predictive processing model) 10:07 Predictive processing and psychotic experiences 19:28 The boundaries of conscious control 28:53 How the brain creates our emotions 41:34 Mapping behavioral and experiential phenomena onto neurophysiology
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