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Bayesian Brain & Meditation

Bayesian Brain & Meditation

The Bayesian brain hypothesises that our mind works like an AI predictive model. We don't experience our world directly, but we perceive it. Meaning we construct it using both our senses and our prior beliefs.

If this is true then meditation can act as a way to improve our experience of ourself and of the world. By making us aware of our biases and allowing us to change how we create the world. This is the proposition of Shamil Chandaria, one of the AI pioneers, having worked at DeepMind (now part of Google).

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Shamil is a former DeepMind employee. Based on his AI experience he proposes that our minds are operating similarly to an AI model.

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