Predictive coding

I think, well, I mean, one of the things I've always been exceptionally fascinated by is memory and memory processing and how memory is really underneath essentially everything.

And I think we are getting more and more science about predictive processing and memory reconsolidation and the way that we all move through the world.

with expectations.

And in so many ways we evoke and we create those expectations being met.

But in other ways, I actually can evoke this behavior in other people.

And so now I've just confirmed, this, you know, terrible, terrible thing about me.

And I think the predictive processing piece is something I've been talking about a lot more and especially with the parents that I work with to try to help, you know, just continue to more conceptualize what's happening, not just with their kids' behaviors, but what their kids' behaviors is really seeking and longing for.

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How early childhood attachment conditioning and emotional states like anxiety, depression or physical exhaustion dictate the baseline volume and shape of those projections.

and how modern neuroscience, specifically ironic process theory, the default mode network, and predictive processing, provides a neurological engine.

We will then establish a step-by-step framework to recognise ego projection across three areas.

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Acute Anxiety and Hypervigilance Predictive Threat Engine Anxiety forces your sympathetic nervous system into continuous threat detection mode.

Because the ego's primary directive is emotional survival, the hypervigilant brain relies heavily on predictive processing to anticipate danger before it happens.

Rather than waiting for actual evidence, an anxious brain actively manufactures worst-case scenarios and projects them onto neutral events or subtle internal impressions.

all of it.

And no, it's, it's a predictive coding problem and it's about reestablishing agency.

Yeah.

And, Teaching the brain that it can control the future, predict the future again.

And we're going to examine the mechanics behind that shift.

We'll look at how Holmes synthesizes attachment theory, the neuroscience of predictive coding, and even classical literature.

I love that he brings literature into it.

It's so cool.

Okay.

To understand how therapy works mechanically, we have to understand how the brain attempts to survive reality.

The free energy principle relies on the idea of predictive coding.

Predictive coding.

If it's not simply seeing is believing, how does our brain manage these incredible feats of precognition before the sensory data fully arrives? What mechanism is precisely at play?

Indeed, this process is largely governed by predictive coding.

Our brains constantly build internal models of the world, using them to predict incoming sensory data.

When actual sensory input arrives, it's compared.

see new things that you haven't seen yet to fill it with new data that it has to acquire.

Yeah, I mean, what you're describing there is basically predictive processing.

And that's kind of what exactly the model that I described.

That's why I say it would appeal to you.

Your brain doesn't just get efficient at running them, it gets very good at predicting the whole sequence.

And this brings us to a neuroscience framework called predictive processing, which I think is pretty darn fascinating.

Basically, the idea is that your brain uses what has happened before to make its best guess about what's going to happen now.

All day long, it's comparing incoming information with what it already knows and making predictions like, "This is what usually happens next," or, "This person normally reacts this way," or, "When this happens, I usually do that." It's basically running forecasts in the background all day long.