The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology #97: Predictive Processing & Ultimate Well-Being - Shamil Chandaria, PhD
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Dec 17, 2024 
Shamil Chandaria, a visionary expert in consciousness, neuroscience, and AI, dives deep into how our brains construct reality through the Bayesian brain theory. He reveals how meditation breaks habitual thought patterns, enhancing our awareness of consciousness. The conversation explores the free energy principle and its implications for emotional well-being, alongside the transformative effects of psychedelics. Chandaria also discusses the fascinating relationship between gamma brain waves and long-term meditation, offering insights into new frontiers of mental fitness.
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Controlled Hallucination
- The brain constructs reality by predicting and updating perceptions, minimizing prediction error.
- This creates an internal simulation or controlled hallucination, not direct world experience.
Meditation and Emptiness
- Meditation helps deconstruct experiences, revealing their impermanent, dreamlike nature (emptiness).
- This dereifies objects and self, leading to awakening and mastering the internal model.
Free Energy Principle
- The free energy principle posits that the brain minimizes prediction errors and deviations from priors.
- This layered model, combining perception and action, explains the pursuit of homeostasis and allostasis.