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Mind Transformations - Dhruv Gautam

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Our brains have weird, but sample-efficient learning mechanisms: all events are not treated equally, and many people have transformative experiences that are the root cause of some new behavior in their life. Recently, some of my thoughts about meditation, religion, and psychedelics have led to me developing some ideas about human behavior with respect to our brains. One main line of thinking I now think about is that when someone intentionally plans some experience, that person often has some internal representation of the experience that their mind predicts about how it will impact the mind itself. A simple example is someone thinking that going on a vacation will help their mind be more relaxed from their day-to-day life. This reasoning is often derived from previous experiences + the experiences of other people. How about unique events that no one else can accurately predict? Differing religious and psychedelic experiences have notoriously been hard to explain; how can a human brai

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." – Heraclitus Our brains have weird, but sample-efficient learning mechanisms: all events are not treated equally, and many people have transformative experiences that are the root cause of some new behavior in their life. Recently, some of my thoughts about meditation, religion, and psychedelics have led to me developing some ideas about human behavior with respect to our brains. One main line of thinking I now think about is that when someone intentionally plans some experience, that person oft

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