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

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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Is Your Model of the World Really Wrong?

Segway: We're often trying to make sense of this very complex world and fit it into simple models that we can understand. And then when those get violated, you know, all hell breaks loose. He says even on the micro level, these predictions are constantly causing some level of suffering or mental instability. Segway: The self is constantly a model that's never going to fit reality because reality cannot be simulated accurately.

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