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#93: Neuroplasticity, Meditation & the Predictive Brain - Ruben Laukkonen, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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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

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