While I lack the neuroscience knowledge to directly assess how correct the model in this post is, I do have a lot of meditation experience (7k+ hours), and what I can say is that it generally comports with my experiences of what happens when I meditate. I see this post as an important step towards developing a general theory of how meditation works, and while it’s not a complete theory, it makes useful progress in exploring these ideas so that we may later develop a complete one.
While I lack the neuroscience knowledge to directly assess how correct the model in this post is, I do have a lot of meditation experience (7k+ hours), and what I can say is that it generally comports with my experiences of what happens when I meditate. I see this post as an important step towards developing a general theory of how meditation works, and while it’s not a complete theory, it makes useful progress in exploring these ideas so that we may later develop a complete one.