Showing posts with label predictive processing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label predictive processing. Show all posts
Monday, October 12, 2026

Casino culture meets the predictive brain

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Max Read has a recent sharp piece in the New York Times Magazine, "Gambling Is the Culture," that I want to pass on, along with s...
Monday, September 21, 2026

Deeper meditation is associated with more reproducible sensory responses

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Nah et al.  do experiments suggesting that meditation depth enhances the functional signal-to-noise ratio of the brain. The study is attempt...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain

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I've been meaning to point out this Nature Reviews Neuroscience Perspectives article by Barrett and Miller (the same Miller referenced i...
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Friday, July 24, 2026

Top-Down To Bottom-Up: Rhythmic Synchrony Relaxes Social Priors to Enable Change

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Abstract (slightly edited) of an article by Connor Wood and accepted for publication in Brain and Behavioral Sciences: Interpersonal synchro...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

When the Self Dissolves, the Precuneus Goes Quiet: A Rigorous Test of Meditation’s “Many-to-(n)One” Continuum

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 A recurring question on this blog is how much of what we take to be fixed about experience—time, space, agency, the bounded self—is actual...
Monday, April 27, 2026

When Execution Gets Cheap, What Remains Scarce? - The last biological moat.

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I have enjoyed reading  a recent essay by Aneesh Sathe , which I recommend you read in full. I will pass on here the equally amazing job tha...
Monday, April 20, 2026

What a self is.

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Reading Michael Pollan’s account of his meeting with Anil Seth in his recent book "A World Appears" has prompted me to write down ...
Friday, August 22, 2025

Predictability and the pleasure of music

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Mas-Herrero et al. do an interesting study on how predictive processes shape individual musical preferences . Significance Using a novel de...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

Deric and DeepSeek R1 on the enteroceptive self in a small world - taking refuge in troubled times

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This post on an exchange with DeepSeek R1 is a followup on my previous post describing the Chat GPT 4o response to some of my idea fragmen...
Wednesday, January 08, 2025

Predictive coding for social perception

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Rittershofer et al. introduce a special issue of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews titled " Neurobiology of Social Interactions A...