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Predictive Processing / Active Inference
nested control systems
Level 1 of the Nested Control-Systems stack. The computational frame: the brain minimizes prediction error and selects policies; autonomic shifts are action policies, meltdowns a cascading precision-arbitration failure. These layers do not compete; they nest — each operates at a different level of one causal system, which is why treating them as rivals was a decades-long error. Source: Friston (2005), Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 360:815; Lawson, Rees & Friston (2014), Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:302 (aberrant precision account of autism).
source
Friston (2005), Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 360:815; Lawson, Rees & Friston (2014), Front. Hum. Neurosci. 8:302 (aberrant precision account of autism).
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card_ncs_l1_predictive_processing
address
SCI.regulation.FCT/predictive-processing-active-inference/REF.WITNESSED@friston
adjoining cards
- demonstrates → The nested control-systems rule: meet a failure at its own layer — A worked demonstration in the same field (biology).
- on the shelf of → Nested Control Systems — a pre-registered falsification program (NHANES) — a spine theory (a level of the one nested control-systems stack)
- modulates → LC-NE Adaptive Gain — the next level down in the control stack (higher command → lower effector)
- feeds back → Predictive Allostatic Interoception — interoceptive load is fed back as prediction (the loop closes)
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