some papers associated with the popular articles above, for precision and posterity:
Someone noted through a backchannel that the thing I'm trying to say in the model/error/noise section is maybe just "rather than treating some neural phenomenon statistically, it's better to engage with that phenomenon as concrete mechanism [or meaning-laden]." That's maybe super hard for high-complexity, hard to measure, or pre-paradigmatic contexts—which is why people often start or finish with statistics. Anyway, there's a map/territory thing I'm circling, here, in not the best way. Or it's hard because of friction between mechanism versus telos frames. They may chime in; mistakes mine.
In my head I call this the "word salad" phenomenon, where one can read something and be like "that's just word salad..."
I think about this a lot because inferential distance makes "calling word salad" more likely, and it's maybe especially common in pre-paradigmatic domains.
Honestly, I see it a lot between meditators at all skill/knowledge levels, and, imo, it's often a good call. Sometimes it's a good call for part of someone's body of work and a mis-read for another part.
In general, I see it especially between "same-level" experts or autodidacts (again in pre-paradigmatic domains), as well as between non-experts and experts, in both directions. (The "expert" thinks "word salad" when a non-expert... (read more)
[cross-posted to my blog]
[About me: I'm the meditationstuff guy and the "folding" guy. I have a PhD in bioengineering, during which I did work with human clinical EEG (and also audited neuroscience and machine learning classes), but I'm not a neuroscientist, and I didn't run this by any practicing researchers before hitting publish.]
As an introduction, I wanted to just mention up front that I'm not going to talk about predictive processing, artificial neural networks, GPT-N, neural annealing, the free energy principle, jhanas, amygdalae, cerebella, agent-based models of mind, and a bunch of other stuff. Good stuff, though!
What follows are a sprinkling of popular and academic neuroscience references that have been resonant to... (read 2926 more words →)
Meditation Turing Test (MTT) [cf. Ideological Turing Test (ITT)], that's great. 🤔