MIDL Insight Meditation
"Donation-based Step by Step Buddhist Insight Meditation Course on developing calm & tranquillity for insight in daily life."
I am incredibly grateful to @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social and @hohwy.bsky.social (@monash-m3cs.bsky.social) for their continuous supervision throughout this project.
Also grateful to Stephen Procter (midlmeditation.com) for constructive discussions and guidance on Buddhist meditative practices.
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Finally, we outlined four stages through which meditation may systematically reduce suffering within action-perception cycles.
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We translated traditionally introspective meditative concepts—such as grasping, ignorance, insight, and suffering—into a computational framework, enabling them to be objectively examined and measured.
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We suggest that meditation reduces suffering reliably. That is, not by altering specific states of suffering, but by dismantling the underlying mechanisms through which any suffering arises in the first place.
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In this work, we argue that while different ways of reducing suffering can result in states that appear phenomenologically similar, their underlying dynamics differ fundamentally.
See the figure below to get an intuition!
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I also presented a poster on it at
@theassc.bsky.social
earlier this month! So grateful for the opportunity.
Here's the link to the poster:
bit.ly/Poster-Agraw...
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Does meditation just happen to address multiple types of suffering, or does its broad effectiveness hint at something deeper about the mechanisms of suffering or well-being itself?
We address this in our new preprint!
@rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Buddhist monk and researcher
Philosopher at Monash University, interested in mind, language and art
Ass’t Prof. Empirically grounded and experientially authentic science on meditation, insight, and all things ineffable.
https://rubenlaukkonen.substack.com/
https://rubenlaukkonen.com/
I'm writing "Open MDMA: An Evidence-Based Mixed-Methods Review and Manual for MDMA-Therapy," a comprehensive memory reconsolidation-based MDMA-therapy user guide. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aps5g
Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow at @uam.es | Psychological, meta- and contemplative research | INMINDS interview series | lcasedas.com
The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Our next conference is: https://assc2025.gr/. Maintained by @mariandrnh.bsky.social
Philosopher of Cognitive Science. Neural representation, representation in ANNs, control theory, predictive coding/active inference, metaphysics of structure. Affiliated with the University of Adelaide, Australia.
AI+XR+BCI+ML, hax0r, CogSci, Science, Philosophy, Biology, Physics, Psychology, Databionics, TechWizard, Futurist, SpaceRanger, ArT, Meditation, Visionary, Inventor, Technology, Computer, Neuroscience, Machine Learning, Transhumanism, TaiChi Yoga QiGong
M3CS | A unique interdisciplinary centre at Monash University. Through research and education, we explore consciousness, mindfulness, and our connection to each other and the planet.
Learn more: http://monash.edu/m3cs
post doc researching the optimism bias, co-host
@mindsmatter.bsky.social
Researcher at The University of Sydney 🧠 Interested in neuromodulatory systems and sleep
Computational neuroscientist. PhD student in the Shine lab at Sydney Uni. Research associate at Monash M3CS. Interested in spikes, (nonlinear) neural dynamics, decisions, and consciousness.
www.ChristopherJWhyte.com
Cognitive computational neuroscience, machine learning, psychophysics & consciousness.
Currently Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, also affiliated with the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience.
Family first, understanding reality at its most fundamental second. Also sports and good food.
In my day job I study the structure of brains in beings, and the structure of beings with brains.
I study how we direct our own minds through attention and its impact on things like perception, action, & consciousness, now extending to collective attention and digital technologies. PI at philosophydata.org, Editor-in-Chief at philosophymindscience.org
Professor of Philosophy and Decision Theory, LMU Munich. Co-Director of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Account used for academic purposes. Further info at: https://philpeople.org/profiles/christian-list
King's College London. Working on mind, metaphysics, and science.
davidpapineau.co.uk
Assistant Prof at VU Amsterdam. Neuroscience of consciousness, decision making. Computational modeling. Pet method: EEG. Critical of subjective measures. Co-PI in the http://consciousbrainlab.com with @svangaal.bsky.social and @timostein.bsky.social.
PhD candidate in neuroscience @ Center for Sleep & Consciousness UW-Madison
