
Reflections on Canalization and Psychopathology

The idea that psychopathology involves entrenchment is not by itself that innovative, but once we conceptualize that entrenchment as canalization, we can now link it to evolutionary phenotypic variation, dynamical systems, the free energy principle, Bayesian frameworks, Hebbian neuroplasticity, etc. and apply ideas from these areas to the study of ... See more
Awais Aftab • Reflections on Canalization and Psychopathology
How the concept of canalization enables us to think more scientifically about mental health by linking it to other fields such as dynamical systems and bayesianism.