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Interlude LVIII: Madness and Meaning - Psychosis, Predictive Processing, Prediction Error, and Reality Construction
What happens when the brain can no longer filter reality?
In this interlude of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines the neuroscience of psychosis, predictive processing, and the breakdown of perceptual stability. This episode focuses on how excessive prediction error destabilizes the brain’s internal model of reality and alters the way meaning is constructed.
Drawing on the work of Chris Frith at University College London, this episode explores how the brain distinguishes between internal and external signals through prediction and error correction. Perception is not passive…
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