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SUMMARY:Precision psychiatry - Professor Karl J. Friston\, University Coll
 ege London
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CONTACT:Oliver Knight
DESCRIPTION:This talk considers formal or computational approaches to phen
 omenology. I will use psychopathology to offer a case study of aberrant pe
 rception. This motivates the choice of a formal or computational framework
  within which to understand psychopathology\; particularly\, in terms of f
 alse beliefs or inference. This framework is the Bayesian brain. We will f
 ocus on the (neuromodulatory) encoding of uncertainty or precision within 
 predictive coding implementations of active inference – to demonstrate c
 omputational approaches to perception and phenomenology. The endpoint of t
 his analysis is the key role of neuromodulation in selecting those aspects
  of the sensorium that underwrite our belief updating – and making sense
  of our sensations. This speaks to (i) the key role of modulatory neurotra
 nsmitters (and psychopharmacological drugs) in shaping our inferences abou
 t the lived world\, and (ii) the accompanying attentional sets that might 
 characterize meditation\, dissociative states\, flow states\, and other st
 ates of mind.
LOCATION:Online via zoom
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