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The Science of Meditation
Coursera
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A Coursera course that surveys the science behind meditation, connecting mindfulness practices with current understanding of how the mind works. It covers how much of everyday decision-making happens outside awareness.
One commenter suggests skimming its lectures, saying it touches on the link between mindfulness and modern understanding of the mind, and on how much of life is narrating outcomes rather than deciding them.
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I suggest you skim through these lectures.
https://www.coursera.org/learn/science-of-meditation
It touches on the connections between mindfulness and modern understanding of the mind. Most important, it talks about this problem, that you are not aware of the amout of decisions and input/output data is hidden from you, and how much of your life is narrating outcomes, rather than deciding them.
Fascinating stuff. Makes me feel like a batch of hidden layers struggling for consensus with one tiny human-interaction module that tells a consistent story about why certain outputs are weighted, and that story is called "free will and personality".