Figure 7.

This figure illustrates a hypothetical mechanism for inducing decentering, within a hierarchical cortical network for perceptual inference plus an additional metacognitive layer at the top. Here, the notion is that during the being mode (with attentional modulation of forward connections, higher precision-weighting of prediction errors, PE, and rapidly ongoing belief updates, BU; compare Figure 6), high-level beliefs about one’s agency and level of control at the meta-cognitive level are altered and become less precise. See main text for details.