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The Brain as a Non-Linear Optical Computer: Reflections on a 2-Week Jhānas Meditation Retreat

Building a Science of Consciousness

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Jana: A Powerful Motivational Architecture

Jana's are essentially an attractor where the top down influence of local field potentials and the bottom up influence of neural coherence feed on each other. The three things formed a feedback loop that I called a nonlinear self-sustaining resonance. And yeah, it very much feels like when you're very close to the there's kind of like an attractor basin of that very strong feedback loop.

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