Great posts Kaj Sotala. Would it be wrong to say this is an attempt to place Buddhist/meditation insights in the domain and language of cognitive science? I would suggest that an exciting step would be the connection to neuroscience—just recently read Michael Pollan’s ‘How to Change Your Mind’ and became aware of the concept of default mode network, and how its down-regulation is associated with states of flow and likely with meditation/psychedelic induced changes in the perception of self. Interesting stuff!
A lot of this already draws on neuroscience, particularly neuronal workspace theory, but I agree that there’s still a lot more that could be brought in. Appreciate the book suggestion, it looks interesting.
Great posts Kaj Sotala. Would it be wrong to say this is an attempt to place Buddhist/meditation insights in the domain and language of cognitive science? I would suggest that an exciting step would be the connection to neuroscience—just recently read Michael Pollan’s ‘How to Change Your Mind’ and became aware of the concept of default mode network, and how its down-regulation is associated with states of flow and likely with meditation/psychedelic induced changes in the perception of self. Interesting stuff!
Thanks! You could say that, yes.
A lot of this already draws on neuroscience, particularly neuronal workspace theory, but I agree that there’s still a lot more that could be brought in. Appreciate the book suggestion, it looks interesting.