This is a very important post that properly charts out Vipassana meditation and introduces people to the basic workings of this technique to reduce suffering. The author has tried to draw parallels to explain this experience with Active Inference which he knows already. I do agree that expecting something and not getting what is expected leads to more suffering and this parallel with prediction error does sound interesting. Still we should keep improving our model to understanding what we are experiencing and how our brain works. This is because Vipassana meditation is also of 30 and 60 days where you go do much deeper into our mind that there are more subtler realities that you experience and Active Inference maybe inadequate to explain all of that (or there might be some error in this Active Inference theory applicability here too as one of the commentators had pointed out). Nonetheless this still feels pretty logical post to me and a good framework for understanding suffering. Although to be honest, many people physicists and scientists develop their own framework to understand Vipassana meditation and this phenomena of suffering which is also pointed out to us in the 10 day meditation retreat. Whatever the framework might be, it is even so more important to do Vipassana meditation to uproot the roots of our suffering and reduce it!
This is a very important post that properly charts out Vipassana meditation and introduces people to the basic workings of this technique to reduce suffering. The author has tried to draw parallels to explain this experience with Active Inference which he knows already. I do agree that expecting something and not getting what is expected leads to more suffering and this parallel with prediction error does sound interesting. Still we should keep improving our model to understanding what we are experiencing and how our brain works. This is because Vipassana meditation is also of 30 and 60 days where you go do much deeper into our mind that there are more subtler realities that you experience and Active Inference maybe inadequate to explain all of that (or there might be some error in this Active Inference theory applicability here too as one of the commentators had pointed out). Nonetheless this still feels pretty logical post to me and a good framework for understanding suffering. Although to be honest, many people physicists and scientists develop their own framework to understand Vipassana meditation and this phenomena of suffering which is also pointed out to us in the 10 day meditation retreat. Whatever the framework might be, it is even so more important to do Vipassana meditation to uproot the roots of our suffering and reduce it!