AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
4min chapter
#93: Neuroplasticity, Meditation & the Predictive Brain - Ruben Laukkonen, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
The Predictive Processing Neuroscientific Model
In a lot of the traditions like in Zen, often you're encouraged to start with focusing on your breath and then you might open your awareness. And similarly in Mahamudra, at least in the tradition that I trained in, it was first focusing the attention on one point, the shamata. And then from there, opening up the awareness and eventually having that become non dual. In my neuroscience dissertation for my masters,. That was a critical review of non dual studies. It's possible to somewhat paradoxically realize that we went through those abstractions of the narrative self before deconstructing this subject objectuality. The fact was that that awareness is always underlying all of the predictive processing hierarchy
00:00
Transcript
Episode notes
Get the Snipd
podcast app
Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
AI-powered
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode
Save any
moment
Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways
Share
& Export
Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more
AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
Discover
highlights
Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode