ABSTRACT
M. Solm argues that if automation is activated before a mental event has been satisfactorily resolved, then free energy will remain high but in an unconscious state. The struggle with reaching up with its concomitant high entropy and free energy resolved itself into a very long neck. Neural plasticity, whereby healthy brain tissue takes over the function of damaged tissue, is another way that high free energy resulting from damaged tissue is restored to normality by the generation of functional brain material elsewhere. Raw emotions which could lead to uncertainty are attenuated by the Bayesian brain. It is self-evident that disordered emotional states rather than cognitive ones predominate in most psychological disorders which means that guiding patients towards a realisation that the glass can also be half-full, can begin to outweigh the negative effects of prior beliefs by introducing healthy, more cheerful new data.
