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Practically-A-Book Review: Byrnes on Trance
Manage episode 493792858 series 1755998
Steven Byrnes is a physicist/AI researcher/amateur neuroscientist; needless to say, he blogs on Less Wrong. I finally got around to reading his 2024 series giving a predictive processing perspective on intuitive self-models. If that sounds boring, it shouldn’t: Byrnes charges head-on into some of the toughest subjects in psychology, including trance, amnesia, and multiple personalities. I found his perspective enlightening (no pun intended; meditation is another one of his topics) and thought I would share.
It all centers around this picture:
But first: some excruciatingly obvious philosophical preliminaries.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-byrnes
1073 episodes
Manage episode 493792858 series 1755998
Steven Byrnes is a physicist/AI researcher/amateur neuroscientist; needless to say, he blogs on Less Wrong. I finally got around to reading his 2024 series giving a predictive processing perspective on intuitive self-models. If that sounds boring, it shouldn’t: Byrnes charges head-on into some of the toughest subjects in psychology, including trance, amnesia, and multiple personalities. I found his perspective enlightening (no pun intended; meditation is another one of his topics) and thought I would share.
It all centers around this picture:
But first: some excruciatingly obvious philosophical preliminaries.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/practically-a-book-review-byrnes
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