
Lance Da Costa ~ Active Inference Insights 010 ~ Mathematics, Time, Selfhood
Active Inference Insights
Meditation as Agent-Building
- Meditation computationally resembles building higher-level agents within our cognitive model.
- Trained meditators experience both the world and their cognitive processes.
- Mathematically, this hierarchical model can be viewed as nested agents inferring each other, similar to Russian dolls.
- This challenges the idea of a single "outer shell" self, suggesting the autobiographical self is an aggregation of these inner agents.
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