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Building a Science of Consciousness

Guided Meditation: Local Binding and the PageRank of Attention

Jul 30, 2023
32:17
In this guided meditation, Andrés will assist you in exploring how attention constructs local binding connections between phenomenal features, and how the flow of attention and awareness can be likened to the graph algorithm called PageRank.Topics covered in the meditation include:
  • Reviewing the nature of attention: what you pay attention to becomes stronger, gets locally bound, and connects to what you were paying attention to right before.
  • Noticing local binding in the experiences of See, Hear, and Feel (both inner and outer).
  • Cross-modal coupling: employing the divide and conquer technique to prevent negative valence and the coherence technique to enhance positive valence.
  • Understanding the oscillatory complementarity between awareness and attention.
  • Recognizing how objects of perception can act as witnesses and witnessed elements of a scene.
  • Exploring hybrid attentional modes.
  • Investigating chains of witnessing and Nth-order intentionality.
  • Examining the concept of PageRank applied to attention.
  • Delving into space witnessing space.
These techniques and insights are valuable additions to your Qualia Mastery* toolkit.

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