Vertical Resonance as a Control Parameter: Integrating a Phenomenological Self-Model into the Criticality of Active Inference

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This theoretical paper proposes a novel synthesis of the neurodynamic framework of active inference with phenomenological and systemic models of psychological change. Building on the "criticality of consciousness" hypothesis (Tucker et al., 2025), consciousness is understood as the balanced interplay of an excitatory (E) predictive and an inhibitory (I) corrective limbic system. To imbue this formal architecture w...

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• Depressive Disorder, Major
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
• Phenotype
• Schizophrenia
• Schizophrenic Psychology
• Self Concept
• Young Adult

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b92e17c8-8ff2-51a5-abbd-fbd73c292545

DOI

10.20944/preprints202508.1710.v1