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Self-evidencing babies: Commentary on “Mentalizing homeostasis: The social origins of interoceptive inference” by Fotopoulou & Tsakiris
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This commentary considers three key themes in the target article, from the perspective of the self-evidencing brain. In brief, I examine the notion of minimal selfhood in terms of inference to the best explanation; in particular, an explanation for sensations that are uniquely available to a self. This begs the question of how self differs from non-self and how non-self differs from the concept of another. From an (active) inference point of view, the building of generative models that entail minimal selfhood rests on structure learning and Bayesian model selection. In this setting, I focus on the role of generalized synchrony – and the implicit closure of action-perception cycles – in dyadic interactions. Finally, I touch on the importance of interoception awareness and the implications of how interoceptive signals are contextualized for translating the ideas in the target article into developmental psychopathology.
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“Living organisms possess specific sub-systems capable of supporting generative models with temporal depth and counterfactual richness (Friston et al., 2017c).”
From An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness (2020) · cites this paper as Friston et al., 2017c
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“This cross-frequency phase coupling (Canolty and Knight, 2010) could allow for the stabilization of multi-scale dynamics within HPP, with increasing levels of hierarchical depth affording modeling of complex and temporally extended causes (Friston et al., 2017c).”
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“IWMT argues that integrated selfhood and autonomy are required for coherent sense-making.”
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“Yet, because blanket states informationally shield internal states from the rest of the world, modeling external states and MB boundaries necessitates inference (Friston, 2017, 2018, 2019).”
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“From an FEP-AI perspective, this coupling relationship is one of mutual modeling and collaborative inference (Friston and Frith, 2015; Friston, 2017; Kirchhoff et al., 2018; Palacios et al., 2019).”
From An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness (2020) · cites this paper as Friston, 2017
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“Brains acquire especially powerful predictive modeling abilities when they are organized according to multiple layers of hierarchical depth.”
From An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness (2020) · cites this paper as Friston et al., 2017c
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“With respect to loopy message passing for approximate inference (Koller and Friedman, 2009; Friston et al., 2017b), these coherent models may have a (circular) causal significance in that they would be more likely to provide consistent inferential flows, and so be more likely to first converge upon stable posteriors, and so be more likely to dominate rounds of Bayesian model selection.”
From An Integrated World Modeling Theory (IWMT) of Consciousness (2020) · cites this paper as Friston et al., 2017b
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Predictive coding: an account of the mirror neuron system
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Self-citationActive inference, sensory attenuation and illusions
Brown, H., Adams, R. A., Parees, I., Edwards, M., & Friston, K. (2013) · Cognitive Processing · doi:10.1007/s10339-013-0571-3 · Cited by 488
Self-citationFriston, K., & Frith, C. (2015) · Consciousness and Cognition · doi:10.1016/j.concog.2014.12.003 · Cited by 359
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“This integration of action with perception is likely crucial for agentic planning and the counterfactual simulations upon which it is based (Hassabis and Maguire, 2009; MacKay, 2019), without which the development of coherent world models may be impossible (De Kock, 2016; Friston, 2017).”
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- Authors
- Friston, K. J.
- Affiliations
- Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Friston, Karl J.
- ORCID
- Friston, Karl J.
- Venue
- Neuropsychoanalysis
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-01-02
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 43-47
- ISSN
- 1529-4145 (ISSN-L)
- 2044-3978
- OpenAlex
- W2588275017
- Cited by
- 14
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 1
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuropsychoanalysis (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Wellcome Trust (088130/Z/09/Z)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- interoception, interoceptive inference, mentalization, inference to the best explanation, self-other distinction, perception-action cycle, dyadic interaction, interoceptive awareness, developmental psychopathology, Bayesian model selection, structure learning
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