Counterfactual cognition and psychosis
Adding complexity to predictive processing accounts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21591911 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sofiia Rappe (0000-0003-3343-7025, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, corresponding author), Sam Wilkinson (0000-0001-7414-7505, Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 356-379 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09515089.2022.2054789 |
| OpenAlex | W4220945246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 71 |
Over the last decade or so, several researchers have considered the predictive processing framework (PPF) to be a useful perspective from which to shed some much-needed light on the mechanisms behind psychosis. Most approaches to psychosis within PPF come down to the idea of the “atypical” brain generating inaccurate hypotheses that the “typical” brain does not generate, either due to a systematic top-down processing bias or more general precision weighting breakdown. Strong at explaining common individual symptoms of psychosis, such approaches face some issues when we look at a more general clinical picture. In this paper, we propose an update on the current accounts of psychosis based on the realization that a neurotypical brain constantly generates non-actual, de-coupled, counterfactual hypotheses as part of healthy cognition. We suggest that what is going on in psychosis, at least in some cases, is not so much a generation of erroneous hypotheses, but rather an inability to correctly use the counterfactual ones. This updated view casts “accurate” cognition as more fragile and delicate, but also closes the gap between psychosis and typical cognition
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Counterfactual thinking · Developmental psychology · Neurotypical · Psychiatry · Psychosis · Theory of mind · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Neuroscience · Psychology · Schizophrenia research and treatment · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |