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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, in daily lif,e we are not aware of our hallucinations. Meditation or psychedelics are ways to break through our model of ourselves.
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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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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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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 than meditation can act as a way to impr...
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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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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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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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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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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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We have to take care not to damage our self-esteem and our sense of self-worth by being judgemental about ourselves.
Embracing one’s imperfect moments with kindness and grace, makes us see the positive aspects of the situation and helps us learn from our mistakes. Medita...
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They like us in ways we are not easily able to like ourselves.
Usually, we are more aware of our shortcomings than of our good parts. We need a friend because we are liable to be so very unfriendly towards ourselves.
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Our definition of beauty is often formed in three ways:
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