Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben

Meditation, Insight, and Predictive Processing with Ruben Laukkonen

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Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist and meditator Ruben Laukkonen about the phenomenology of the insight experience, how the sequence of deepening meditative practices maps onto the model of predictive processing in the human brain, the Eureka heuristic, what neuroscience can tell us about the deconstructive model of meditation, the science of cessations, and much more.

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