Predictive Coding - What Does It Mean to Prime People for Lyme Disease?

Some people believe a lizard is crawling under their skin because they use cocaine. Or, someone might believe their penis is missing because they're schizophrenic. This belief primes people to experience the condition and makes it much more common than it would be if it were just a few schizophrenics having random hallucinations now and again. Megabytes of data assault the brain every second. How does it decide what to focus on when building world models? Predictive coding says it uses pre-existing categories or narratives or guesses to determine what's most likely to be important. So here's an embedded video. It's a very famous YouTube video called Selective Attention Test. The video presents you with an image of