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Thanks for many replies to this! The brief extract I quoted here was an inadequate specification The hypothetical method would be about agendaless involvement in sensory fascination— not about thinking or non-thinking, not about non-involvement, not about doing anything
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Yeah, edge detection is bottom-up. Fwiw I seem to be able to turn off the top-down stuff, which for a former machine vision researcher is exciting; plausibly the experience is of the raw output of early/bottom-up vision.
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In kasina meditation, though concentrative and agentic, I've found I need to intentionally let go of visual preconception, in order to let the strange afterimage do its own phase-shifting dance in front of me—this is what lets my mind settle down into absorption
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I've done this w/ practice. I observe a static point in a forest and let focusing relax. It ends up modulating sort of randomly, and after a minute or two the center of vision seems to be tiled outwards. Looking slightly around immediately reveals convolutions, which is wacky.
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