Exploring Consciousness Through Mahan Buddhism

This week on the podcast previous guest Shamil Chandaria is returning to discuss his recent paper “A beautiful loop: An active inference theory of consciousness”, co-authored with Ruben Laukkonen. Shamil Chandaria is an expert in artificial intelligence and computational neuroscience. He was a founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at Imperial College London where he is a Research Fellow, as well as at The School of Advanced Study’s Institute of Philosophy, which is part of the University of London. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing at Oxford University, and, most recently, he became a fellow of Fitzwilliam College at Cambridge university. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/daf5n