Vipassana Meditation and Active Inference: A Framework for Understanding Suffering and its Cessation — LessWrong

This post aims to build towards a theory of how meditation alters the mind based on the ideas of active inference (ActInf). ActInf has been growing in its promise as a theory of how brains process information and interact with the world and has become increasingly validated with a growing body of work in the scientific literature.

x Vipassana Meditation and Active Inference: A Framework for Understanding Suffering and its Cessation — LessWrong Meditation Free Energy Principle Suffering World Modeling World Optimization Frontpage 53 Vipassana Meditation and Active Inference: A Framework for Understanding Suffering and its Cessation by Sturb 21st Mar 2024 23 min read 10 53 I want to thank Jan Kulveit, Tomáš Gavenčiak, and Jonathan Shock for their extensive feedback and ideas they contributed to this work and for Josh Burgener and Yusuf Heylen for their proofreading and comments. I would also like to acknowledge the Episte

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