Larry’s Reviews > Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind > Status Update

Normally, we attenuate the proprioceptive impact of our self-generated movements, but this goes wrong in schizophrenia, which leads schizophrenic patients to hypothesize about alien agency ("when I press my finger against my hand, *someone* is also pushing my hand against my finger!")

About mirror neurons: it’s interesting to say that the perception of an action has to be influenced by context to be understood, and that this translates into adjustments of the prediction error weightings in the PP model, but that doesn’t tell us how the adjustments themselves materialize in neural terms