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Meditation & Predictive Processing: Ruben Laukkonen

Musing Mind Podcast

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Predictive Processing - What Is the Present Moment?

Sally Kohn: I love the way you described this. You have an article up on the science of mindfulness website titled, What is the Present Moment? And there you write, time or rather the organization of regularities in time is the very currency of construction within the brain. Without molding the present based on the past, there simply is nothing meaningful to experience. These jolts of electricity that climb your nervous system are empty of meaning of meaning without the brain and the body's capacity to regurgitate its own meaning. Getting beneath that to this deeper present moment is not so simple. It generally requires serious training and practice because this requires going against the way we've been wired

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