From Insentient Allostasis to Adaptive Bodily Selfhood: Conscious vs Unconscious Instrumental Interoceptive Inference
Adaptive Behavior: Animals, Animats, Software Agents, Robots, Adaptive Systems
Published online on April 18, 2026
Abstract
Adaptive Behavior, Ahead of Print.
The pre-reflective experience of being a body is a fundamental component of consciousness and selfhood. A leading account from the perspective of active inference is Seth and Tsakiris’ (2018, see also Seth, 2021, 2024) proposal that this experience arises ...
The pre-reflective experience of being a body is a fundamental component of consciousness and selfhood. A leading account from the perspective of active inference is Seth and Tsakiris’ (2018, see also Seth, 2021, 2024) proposal that this experience arises ...