The Doors of Perception are the Threshold of Prediction: Active Inference and William Blake's Theory of Seeing

The Doors of Perception are the Threshold of Prediction explores eight concordances between William Blake's prophetic vision and the mathematics of Active Inference. The paper develops a 'Thematic Atlas' sketching how Blake's theory of seeing maps onto prediction error minimization, Markov blankets, hierarchical generative models, and the principle that all perception is active inference.