At the end of the 19th century, the ideas of psychophysiology and its rhetorical devices gave rise to a new way of referring to consciousness and the human being. Literature would change along with this scientific revolution. To such an extent that we speak of nervous and sensory literature, psychophysiological literature. Great novels such as The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Ulysses by James Joyce, In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, and Azar by Joseph Conrad have as one of their central issues the conditioning of these new ways of saying consciousness.
In recent decades, scientific research around consciousness continues to change paradigms, but the reception by the literature of the rhetorical devices of behavioral neurology, cognitive sciences, and others has been slow to come.
It is possible to consider that new literature is approaching based on this new conception. Is neural or predictive consciousness literature approaching? Is there an example? Or simply, Is it impossible for the literature of this step?
While the idea of the mind acting as an unconscious predictor of the future is not new (going back at least as far as Helmholtz), it is only relatively recently that effort has concentrated on explaining this particular aspect of mind in the form of a rigorous and testable theory that bridges the gap between cognitive psychology (incl Gibsonian affordances and Gestalt theory) and neurology.
You might want to have a look at the work of Karl Friston, a theoretical neurologist and mathematician at UCL. Building on previous work by Geoffrey Hinton (now at the University of Toronto), Prof Friston has formulated a mathematical model of the generative, predictive processes that explain our actions by minimising entropy (he calls it Free Energy Minimisation in a nod to the physics origin of the equations used). To my knowledge, he has written one accessible paper on the subject which you might consider worth a read:
"The Active Inference Approach to Ecological Perception: General Information Dynamics for Natural and Artificial Embodied Cognition". https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2018.00021/full
The vast majority of his other papers are extremely mathematical in nature and offer explanations of his theory using Bayesian and Statistical Inference.
Hope I've understood your question correctly.
Thanks for the answer.
Is a surprise that Helmholtz known or suspected an unconscious predictor.
But, my question is relative to the representations of consciousness and how they are applied to say things about humans.
I interest in research how these representations acquired one use in daily life and the literature is a way for close to understanding that issue.
The metaphor, the discursive styles, and the concepts beyond the mathematical realizations are how, finally, we will talk about the phenomenons of consciousness and unconsciousness to the society.
I appreciate your interest very much.
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