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Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben Laukkonen

Deconstructing Yourself

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Meditation - The Brain Constructs Experience

In order to have an experience, it requires some regularities over time. This is simply just how the brain constructs experience from concrete to abstract. And then if you take away experience naturally at this very deconstructed state, you're left with a kind of and without prediction, without inference, without categorization, without conceptualization. It's exactly what is talked about in the meditative traditions in terms of phenomenology as well. So i think as nice. Also, thinking about it this way explains why we talk about the present moment tand now, be here now. Because basically, being here now is annihilation to our concepts. Actually, more than our concepts, all our experience, if

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