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Lance Da Costa ~ Active Inference Insights 010 ~ Mathematics, Time, Selfhood

Active Inference Insights

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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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