From a psychoanalytic–neurocomputational view, even the most bizarre conspiracy theory ends ambivalence and relieves the affect related to uncertainty.

Homeostasis wins over truth and emotional stability over epistemic accuracy, which explains the enduring of conspiracy theory.

Conspiracy theories offer what ambivalent reality withholds: closure.

Even when empirically implausible, they restore causality, identify agents, and eliminate ambiguity.

This ends cortical stress, reduces free energy, and creates the experience of a solved problem.

In Solms' account, consciousness is primarily affective.

Conflict and uncertainty generate feeling because they signal a threat to homeostasis.

Affective tension is therefore not optional; it demands resolution and psychic equilibrium.

The brain is not organised to discover objective truth. Truth is unstable and context-dependent.

Solms and Friston say, it seeks probabilistic models that minimise uncertainty and enable prediction.

A stable but false belief can be biologically preferable to a true yet destabilising one.

When uncertainty cannot be resolved, the nervous system remains under permanent strain, experienced as anxiety or stress.

Sustained cortical processing is metabolically and affectively costly.

In Friston’s terms, this persistent mismatch constitutes free energy that demands reduction.

Contemporary reality is often ambivalent: information is contradictory, authority fragmented, causal relations are unclear.

Such ambiguity resists automatisation and forces sustained cortical processing, keeping the brain in a state of ongoing interpretation rather than settled prediction.