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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 Brain's Predictions Are Simulations

The first thing the brain needs to predict is this really raw sensory experience. And then from there, it makes obstructions to categorize that sensory experience. So now we're more in the domain of higher order thinking, but there too, our predictions are simulations and just completely, completely transform. This is the wild thing. It's all happening in the space of awareness.

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