Active Inference, Computational Phenomenology, and Advanced Meditation: Toward the Formalization of the Experience of Meditation

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Hagar Tal, Malcolm Wright, Shawn Prest, Lars Sandved-Smith, Matthew D. Sacchet

2025

Towards a computational phenomenology of meditative deconstruction: modelling ‘letting go’ and the deconstruction of experience with active inference

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Shawn Prest

OSF, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University, 2025 Feb

Towards an Active Inference Account of Deep Meditative Deconstruction

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Shawn Prest, Kevin Berryman

Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University, 2024 Feb

Opening the Sensory Gates: A Predictive Processing Account of Meditation and Learning

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Shawn Prest

National University of Distance Education (UNED; Spain), 2021