Adaptive · Independent research
Changing the predictions we live by.
Adaptive is an independent research project exploring what predictive processing, and the wider landscape of Bayesian brain theories, might tell us about self-directed change: how we can update the beliefs and predictions that shape our experience of ourselves and our lives.
First studied predictive processing
AAP presentation
First public talk
About
A learning project, not a finished theory.
What’s emerging is something like a survey of the mechanisms thought to be at play in belief-updating, and an attempt to turn them into a practical, grounded method. None of it has yet been peer-reviewed, modelled or empirically tested. It’s a theoretical framework at an early stage, and I’m still very much learning the related fields. I plan to develop it further in a structured academic context from 2027.
Questions I’m exploring
How beliefs and generative models change
The mechanisms behind belief-updating
Where self-directed change fits alongside psychology and therapy
Turning theory into a grounded method
How it began
From theory to practice, and back.
Testimonial
From the talk
Dr Shane Pointing
PhD (Psychology), talk attendee
