Meditation & Predictive Processing: Ruben Laukkonen
Musing Mind Podcast
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Yvall Noah Harari's the Cognitive Revolution
The existence of the self is itself already indeed a kind of counterfactual. So to even predict a behavior, to behave, there needs, the system needs to make an inference of itself in that next moment in time. And if you follow that logic out, the more counterfactuals that we hold in mind, the more scenarios of ourselves or others as agents that we are predicting. It's almost like counterfactuallys are a multiverse in our minds. They all get stacked on top of each other. In this present universe, we experience the weight of that stack almost as the thickness or the solidity of ourSelfhood.
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