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New paper - Chris Fields and James Glazebrook "Principled Limitations on Self-Representation for Generic Physical Systems" mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/3…

Exciting announcement from Thomas Metzinger📢 Following the publication of his new book on the topic, he has created a €20k cash prize for the best computational model of 'pure awareness'. The judges are Shamil Chandaria, Karl Friston, Jakob Hohwy, Anil Seth, Thomas and @HeleenASlagter.

Non-dual Awareness and Awakening by Shamil Chandaria youtu.be/WvPtqGp9PHA?fe… via YouTube

New Paper on Arousal Coherence! 🚨 Synchrony between body and feelings can impact wellbeing. Arousal coherence (via active inference) can influence our capacity to adapt to uncertainty. Meditation trains meta-awareness for intentionally upregulating coherence. Give

🚨 New preprint 🚨 “An approach to non-equilibrium statistical physics using variational Bayesian inference,” by dalton, Karl Friston, and yours truly—on the “as if” nature of explanation under the free energy principle #FEP 1/10 arxiv.org/abs/2406.11630

A few important clarifications about cessations of consciousness during meditation:

Awareness is not the ground—a precious quote from a meditator in Metzinger’s book:

🚨 New publication 🚨 Excited to share our recent preprint “A mathematical perspective on neurophenomenology,” written in collaboration with Lancelot Da Costa, Lars Sandved Smith, Anil Seth, and Karl Friston 1/5 arxiv.org/abs/2409.20318

Official version of this paper with Chris Fields is out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes" PRL is collecting Commentaries on it, if anyone wants to submit one. Abstract: "We argue that “processes versus

One of the best things I’ve done for my health is training myself to be a nose breather. More chill. Better focus. Better teeth. Highly recommend fixing this if you breathe through your mouth.

To identify as awakened is a grand irony. For it draws a line in reality between the awakened and the unawakened. This actually isolates one further from everyone and everything, causing a disconnection (which necessarily comes with an element of suffering), rather than causing