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

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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What's Next for the Predictive Hierarchy?

In classical Buddhism, Narota is a state where all consciousness disappears. In cognitive neuroscience, we often talk about top-down versus bottom-up processing. The idea that our perception, our actions, our experiences, our thought are driven by really our existing beliefsAbout how reality is. And so if you take, for example, color, our experience of color is always a combination of top-down and bottom-upprocessing as everything else is the raw data.

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