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Karl Friston on the Perils of Investigations into Consciousness, Derealization, and the Free Energy Principle
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
The Opposite of Mindfulness and Meditation
There's a really interesting connection between the use of psychedelics and the aspiration of many meditation-like practices. I don't know what ego-death means, but I can have a guess at it from a point of view of meditation and mindfulness. So putting all that attention out to the sensory side of your deep hierarchical models, your constructs, what you're doing is the opposite. You've been actually wandering around at the deeper levels of these hierarchical models. It's exactly deploying that attention we're talking about in terms of selecting what kind of information, sensory information, sensory states to engage and determine your belief updating.
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