Meditation & Predictive Processing: Ruben Laukkonen
Musing Mind Podcast
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Meditation and the Predictive Mind
Meditation prunes the counterfactual tree of the predictive mind. A counterfactual is anything that's counter to what is, and we can imagine a future scenario thanks to counterfactualizing about possibilities. As I think further and further into the future, thecounterfactual possibilities get greater and greater. That's what also allows us to create works of art, it's what allows us to come up with a fiction story. It's probably what makes us human in many ways.
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