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5 I Feeling tone at the fringes of consciousness

The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast

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Predicting the Photo Burst

If the actual data being taken in now isn't a strong enough signal to con dict the photo burst, then our conscious experience just is the internally generated pictures. Think about this for a moment. When we walk, unless we're doing mindful walking, we're not feeling our feet on the ground as we suppose. We're running off a loop in the brain made up of our predictions what it normally feels like to walk. And we live in our heads like this because it saves effort, not needing to collect new data every moment.

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