Ep. 13 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Buddhism and Parasitic Processing
Dr. John Vervaeke
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The Paradox of Paradoxic Processing
The capacity for your cognitive brain to be self-organizing, heuristic using has a downside. We call this parasitic processing because it's like a parasite in that it takes up life within you and it takes life away from you. If you try and intervene here, the rest of the system reorganizes itself around your attempted intervention. It can adapt and preserve itself as you try to destroy it.
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