Modern neuroscience is rediscovering Freud's 130-year-old theory of the predictive brain

A new scientific paper argues that the leading modern theory of the brain — the predictive processing or "prediction machine" model — closely mirrors ideas that Sigmund Freud developed in psychoanalysis over 130 years ago. The researchers highlight striking parallels between predictive coding frameworks and Freud's model of the mental apparatus. The finding suggests psychoanalysis may have intuitively anticipated formal neuroscience by decades.

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