Modern neuroscience is rediscovering an idea Freud had 130 years ago

A new study suggests that modern neuroscience's leading theory—the idea that we're constantly predicting the world around us—echoes concepts Sigmund Freud explored over a century ago. While Freud's psychoanalytic approach has largely fallen out of favor, the latest research on predictive processing is finding surprising parallels in how our brains work. According to ScienceDaily, the convergence hints that some of Freud's core intuitions about the mind may have been closer to scientific truth than decades of dismissal suggested.

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