Predictive Processing and the Pathophysiology of Functional Neurological Disorder, 2024, Jungilligens and Perez

[Andy]

Abstract

The contemporary neuroscience understanding of the brain as an active inference organ supports that our conscious experiences, including sensorimotor perceptions, depend on the integration of probabilistic predictions with incoming sensory input across hierarchically organized levels.

As in other systems, these complex processes are prone to error under certain circumstances, which may lead to alterations in their outcomes (i.e., variations in sensations and movements). Such variations are an important aspect of functional neurological disorder, a complex disorder at the interface of brain–mind–body interactions. Thus, predictive processing frameworks offer fundamental mechanistic insights into the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder.

In recent years, many of the aspects relevant to the neurobiology of functional neurological disorder – e.g., aberrant motor and sensory processes, symptom expectation, self-agency, and illness beliefs, as well as interoception, allostasis, and emotion – have been investigated through the lens of predictive processing frameworks.

Here, we provide an overview of the current state of research on predictive processing and the pathophysiology of functional neurological disorder.

Paywall, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/7854_2024_473

 

[rvallee]

This makes absolutely zero sense. It's nothing but an echo chamber "turtles all the way down" model that simply ignores real-life data.

 

[Amw66]

Arse over elbow

 

[ToneAl]

Hasn't this model proven to be fake but they still like to push it

 

[Sean]

Hasn't this model proven to be fake

Never stopped them before. They simply reject reality and substitute their own self-serving version. And nobody is stopping them.

 

[Jonathan Edwards]

As Voltaire and mark Twain said, common sense isn't that common.

 

[rvallee]

Never stopped them before. They simply reject reality and substitute their own self-serving version. And nobody is stopping them.

Yeah and I didn't notice but Perez is an author, so basically one of the "big guns" of the ideology. They have a good scam and they're not letting go of it. It's an officially approved and enabled scam, they can simply coast on repeat.

There is a common criticism of AI models not having any intelligence yet, as being merely "stochastic parrots". Which has some truth to it, but ignores the rapid pace of progress. Those parrots here don't even bother with stochasticity, they just repeat the same stuff in their echo chamber that they heard when they first entered it.

Oh, and this appears to be a textbook, so presumably more parrots are being trained with it, even though it displays less intelligence than GPT3.5. Incredible.