have now read this in full, it's great (the similarity to schizoid personality is striking)
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I thought the most interesting parts were the more skeptical ones toward the end.
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More work to separate the mythology from the realities would be helpful imo.
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In terms of “refactored perception,” author’s claim is that subjects’ perception of own bodies was >
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objectively wrong (according to yoga teacher and his observations), which I find both plausible and
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usefully deflationary. It’s not that there’s not important phenomena in this vicinity, but that >
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it’s super easy to delude yourself about what is happening, especially if there’s an attractive >
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mythology available that makes you come out looking very good and explains away your life problems.
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I think it describes wireheading, reducing autonomous arising of cortical control
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do you know the “default mode network” story? Plausible partial explanation/evidence
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yes, but I suspect that the dmn is emergent result of setting a couple of hyperparams
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Cortical structure is probably largely self-organizing, as a cybernetic control archit.
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