Please Comment on the Predictive Tenet of the Protoconsciousness Hypothesis. Is This Idea Consistent with the Helmholtzian Model of Free Energy That You Are Developing?

Abstract

Comments on an article J. Allan Hobson by (see record [rid]2009-21327-004[/rid]). It is a great pleasure to comment upon Allan Hobson's theory of dreaming and protoconsciousness. When I first encountered these ideas, I was struck by the remarkable convergence between his analysis and the conclusions of a more technical treatment furnished by the free-energy principle. In what follows, I try to emphasize the deep connections between these theories by considering some of Hobson's compelling observations, using the free-energy formulation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)