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Context: follow-up to The Neuroscience of Meditation and A Future For Neuroscience; a unification of (1) the Entropic Brain & REBUS (Carhart-Harris et al. 2014; 2018; 2019), (2) the Free Energy Principle (Friston 2010), (3) Connectome-Specific Harmonic Waves (Atasoy et al. 2016; 2017), and (4) the Symmetry Theory of Valence (Johnson 2016). 0. Introduction Why is neuroscience so hard? Part of the problem is that the brain is complicated. But we’ve also mostly been doing it wrong, trying to explain the brain using methods that couldn’t possibly generate insight about the things we care about. In my writeup on intellectual lineages, I suggest there’s a distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ neuroscience: Traditionally, neuroscience has been concerned with cataloguing the brain, e.g. collecting discrete observations about anatomy, observed cyclic patterns (EEG frequencies), and cell types and neurotransmitters, and trying to match these facts with functional stories. However, it’s increasingl

Contents 0. Introduction I. Annealing metaphors for the brain II. How meditation works: semantically-neutral annealing III. Depression as a disorder of annealing; bipolar depression doubly so IV. The nature of trauma and the implementation of the Bayesian Brain V. On psychedelics: VI. Love and other types of Neural Annealing Michael Edward Johnson, 11-28-19; [email protected] Context: follow-up to The Neuroscience of Meditation and A Future For Neuroscience ; a unification of (1) the Entropic Brain & REBUS (Carhart-Harris et al. 2014 ; 2018 ; 2019 ), (2) the Free Energy Principle (Friston

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