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Allostasis, interoception, and the free energy principle: feeling our way forward.

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Corcoran, Andrew W, Hohwy, Jakob·2017
DOI 10.31234/osf.io/zbqnx
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Interoceptive processing is commonly understood in terms of the monitoring and representation of the body’s current physiological (i.e. homeostatic) status, with aversive sensory experiences encoding some impending threat to tissue viability. However, claims that homeostasis fails to fully account for the sophisticated regulatory dynamics observed in complex organisms have led some theorists to incorporate predictive (i.e. allostatic) regulatory mechanisms within broader accounts of interoceptive processing. Critically, these frameworks invoke diverse – and potentially mutually inconsistent – interpretations of the role allostasis plays in the scheme of biological regulation. We argue in favour of a moderate, reconciliatory position in which homeostasis and allostasis are conceived as equally vital (but functionally distinct) modes of physiological control. We explore the implications of this interpretation for free energy-based accounts of interoceptive inference, advocating a similarly complementary (and hierarchical) view of homeostatic and allostatic processing.

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  • Some variables representing body state are monitored in relation to their departure from a level predicted as optimal in context.

    “some variables representing body state are monitored not only in relation to a homeostatic set point, but also in relation to their departure from a level predicted as optimal in context”

    From Pain Asymbolia as Depersonalization for Pain Experience. An Interoceptive Active Inference Account (2020) · cites this paper as Corcoran and Hohwy, 2017

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Authors
Corcoran, A. W., & Hohwy, J.
Affiliations
Monash University (AU)
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California Digital Library (CDL)
Published
2017-10-27
DOI
10.31234/osf.io/zbqnx
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W4254516896
Cited by
12
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17
Citations by year
2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2
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posted content
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en
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
allostasis, homeostasis, interoception, free energy principle, interoceptive inference, physiological regulation, hierarchical regulation

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