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A Conversation with Kati Devaney

Deconstructing Yourself

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How Meditation Affects the Brain

Katie Devaney is a Harvard neuroscientist and author of How Minds Change. She says the way she thinks about meditation is through a predictive processing lens. There's more information out there than we can reasonably process with our limited, attentional and biological resources that we have. The brain builds models of what is likely to occur in any given context where you find yourself.

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