ActInf GuestStream 073.1 ~ Lachlan Kent: "Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self"
Channel: Active Inference Institute
Date: 2024-03-04

Lachlan Kent
"Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment"

A discussion of two recent papers proposing a new theory proposing that phenomenological, cognitive, and affective states of an embodied self are structured according to the experience of physical gravity (i.e., internal gravity model).

First paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272494424000185 Mental gravity: Modelling the embodied self on the physical environment
Second paper: https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/25/9/1275 Mental Gravity: Depression as Spacetime Curvature of the Self, Mind, and Brain

Anna Ciaunica joins for discussion.

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