Predictive Minds Under Pressure

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This book did not start as a book. It started as a problem.

The original plan was narrow and technical: to integrate three very different ways of talking about consciousness into one coherent framework. On one side stood contemporary neuroscience, with its neural correlates and global workspace models. On another, the Soviet and Russian school, with Vygotsky, Leontiev and Luria treating consciousness as socially shaped activity. On a third, computational theorists with predictive coding, the Free Energy Principle, and modern variants of Integrated Information Theory.

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«Minimal» matters. Every experience involves the whole brain in some way, but that is not informative. We do not want a vague statement like «consciousness happens when the brain is active». We want to know which specific patterns make the difference between a perception being conscious and being unconscious.

Student: How do we even isolate such patterns?

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