Tag: default mode network
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Your Wandering Mind Is Unhappy 1st Gear
I want to start with a sentence that should stop you where you stand: a human mind is a wandering mind, and a wandering mind is unhappy. That’s not a dharma teacher talking. That’s Harvard psychologists Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Gilbert, reporting the results of a study that pinged nearly five thousand people at random…
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What the Hell Is Consciousness? The Question That Runs Through Everything on this site
What is consciousness — not what produces it, not what it correlates with, but what it actually is — turns out to be the question that every serious investigation eventually arrives at, from every direction, and then stops. The neuroscience stops at the hard problem. The philosophy stops at the explanatory gap. The mystics didn’t…
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The Mechanism — The Lock, Not the Room
This post explores the default mode network in the brain and its role in shaping self-perception and social cognition. It discusses how psychedelics and meditation can alter this network, leading to ego dissolution. The author connects these insights to historical narratives and the challenges in understanding direct experiences within various traditions, emphasizing the importance of…
