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Guess the source:
"Action depends upon the agent. The agent itself depends on the action"
Active inference paper? Nope. Nagarjuna, 2nd century CE.
"Action depends upon the agent. The agent itself depends on the action"
Active inference paper? Nope. Nagarjuna, 2nd century CE.
My favorite dharma teaching is predictive processing. Meditation + studying how the brain generates reality taught me to make my nervous system do psychedelic shit at will. The effect is not subtle.View quoted post on X
Dissociation is trusting your model of the body over the body itself. Trust the model less and the body gets loud: tingling, static, emotion flooding in.
The technical term for this trust is “precision.” It sets how heavily your brain weights its predictions versus raw sense data.
Turn down precision on your thoughts and they go quiet. Turn it down on your sense of being a person in 3D space and reality gets weird.
A lot of spiritual teachings suddenly make sense from this frame, not to mention a huge range of seemingly unrelated human behaviors.
Ultra niche tweet, but I'm having an intuition that there would be a lot of value in making a clearer formulation of Buddhism's 12 links of dependent origination in terms of predictive processing.
The 12 links have been described as the heart of Buddhism and were the Buddha reusing existing Hindu philosophical concepts that are now very opaque. We might be close to being able to describe it in precise computational terms.
Quite a bit beyond my dharma pay-grade at the moment, unfortunately.
The 12 links have been described as the heart of Buddhism and were the Buddha reusing existing Hindu philosophical concepts that are now very opaque. We might be close to being able to describe it in precise computational terms.
Quite a bit beyond my dharma pay-grade at the moment, unfortunately.
I have a feeling this book could be a big deal. If anyone knows a publisher...
Right before Halloween, I finally started querying literary agents for Psychofauna. So far 1 agent interested and...20 rejections😖View quoted post on X
I have the feeling that it's an especially bad time to be querying, both for someone with my stats and in general. But the novel already has a substantial readership & I want to get it out before the 2028 election unleashes loads of mind-viruses. (Psychofauna is kind of like Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality but for cognitive security)
If you know anyone who could help me publish it in time lmk
My favorite dharma teaching is predictive processing. Meditation + studying how the brain generates reality taught me to make my nervous system do psychedelic shit at will. The effect is not subtle.
Dissociation is trusting your model of the body over the body itself. Trust the model less and the body gets loud: tingling, static, emotion flooding in.
The technical term for this trust is “precision.” It sets how heavily your brain weights its predictions versus raw sense data.
Turn down precision on your thoughts and they go quiet. Turn it down on your sense of being a person in 3D space and reality gets weird.
A lot of spiritual teachings suddenly make sense from this frame, not to mention a huge range of seemingly unrelated human behaviors.
Dissociation is trusting your model of the body over the body itself. Trust the model less and the body gets loud: tingling, static, emotion flooding in.
The technical term for this trust is “precision.” It sets how heavily your brain weights its predictions versus raw sense data.
Turn down precision on your thoughts and they go quiet. Turn it down on your sense of being a person in 3D space and reality gets weird.
A lot of spiritual teachings suddenly make sense from this frame, not to mention a huge range of seemingly unrelated human behaviors.