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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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Perception is Inference
If we rely only on our senses we would notice we are seeing a small part of an object. Our eyes capture a small patch of colours but we see a bee on a flower. How does the brain construct this image from the minuscule sensory data?
One theory is our brains infer the most li...
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Our Bayesian Brain Hallucinates our Reality
What I believe I am experiencing right now is actually what I am experiencing (called a Posterior Belief). So our reality is weighted average of prior beliefs and sensory data.
These prior beliefs are acting like the hierarchical levels separating a neural network. These in...
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Phenomenal Self Model
Not only we are hallucinating our world. We halucinate ourselves and we halucinate how our self integrates in the constructed world. This is based on:
- sensory integration
- our sense of agency
- experience of what it means to be "me"
- perspective
Ofcourse...
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The Bayesian Brain Model
It is a hypothesis that our brain works through hierarchical predictive processing:
- the brain is constantly generating predictions about the world and then comparing those predictions to incoming sensory data
- the brain is organised into a hierarchy of processin...
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Bayesian Perception Problem
How does our brain perceive the world based given the noisy and incomplete sensory data?
- We have the World creating events.
- A small % of that reality creates sensory data.
- As Agents in the world, we perceive the World. Meaning ur brains have to come out with th...
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Kant's Phenomenal World
Kant, the famous philosopher, postulated we never have an experience of the "real" world (the noumenal word). Our cognition does not conform to the world, but rather the world conforms to our cognition.
We never see the tree as it really is but rather experience our per...
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Neuronal Networks solution to the Bayesian Problem
Neural Networks (which are heavily used in AI) appear to be the solution to the complexity of the Bayesian Perception Problem. They break the problem in levels.
You feed a collection of images of faces to a neuronal network and it predicts:
- low-level features: ed...
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Meditation as Model Mind Hack
Meditation allows us:
- to over-emphasise our senses (as opposed to our priors) through attentional meditations (where we count our breaths for example)
- to become aware of our priors (higher level models in the Bayesian brain like our ethical fou...
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Phenomenal Dimension of Meditation
If we place the 3 types of meditation of on a 3D chart we can plot the evolution of meditator from "monkey mind" to enlightenment. Just like the Jhanas, states of deep mental concentration and absorption that are cultivated in Buddhist meditation.
In short meditation:
- lowers the ...
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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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Simulation: The Way The Brain Really Works
Every moment that we are alive, our brain utilizes concepts to simulate the surrounding environment, practically creating ‘our’ world.
At any given moment, our brain tries to reconstruct, guess or compute what’s happening in the world using simulation. The...
Immanuel Kant And The Perception Of The World
According to 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, our senses are everything, creating our reality for us. The world, according to him, does not have one reality, but as many realities as there are people.
Through our senses, the world available to us is the only world we ever exp...
Create a group that consciously decides to spot biases for each other
- Groups that have a confirmatory style of thought enable one another to not learn and preserve identity
- Instead, create a group that has an exploratory style of thought
- The goal of the group is to create a more accurate mental model of the world
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