Meditation & Predictive Processing: Ruben Laukkonen
Musing Mind Podcast
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Psychedelics and Meditation - What's Going On?
The formal language would be where psychedelics are said to relax our beliefs or reduce the precision ascribed to our high-level priors. They're not as constrictive, whereas meditation, as you've described it here, simply disengages the predictive process altogether. And so certainly, there's a similarity to the effect in terms of having an expansion via the psychedelic root and awareness that maybe you fall into as you disengage the predictive model. But certainly, there are differences too,. I was imagining, if we think of this self, if we look at specifically ego dissolution, which is a very specific and common area of study in psychedelics. If you imagine the self as a sheet
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