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The Human Default Consciousness and Its Disruption: Insights From an EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation
Summary:
- The study explores the concept of human default consciousness (DCs) and its disruption through Buddhist jhāna meditation, contrasting it with other states like anesthesia and coma.
- DCs are defined as a sensory consciousness that evaluates experiences against personal needs, forming the basis of self-experience.
- Jhāna meditation aims to intentionally withdraw from DCs, leading to a state of stillness called jhāna consciousness, which facilitates insight.
- EEG findings from the study reveal unique brain activity patterns during jhāna meditation, including spindle activity and high-voltage slow waves, differing from typical meditation EEG profiles.
- The study suggests that experienced meditators can consciously evoke clonic seizure-like activity, indicating a profound disruption in their DCs.
- The paper highlights the need for more in-depth studies on jhāna meditation, as previous research has largely focused on other forms of meditation.
- The practice of jhāna meditation involves overcoming hindrances such as sensory desire and restlessness, which are seen as key features of the DCs.
- The jhāna states progress from initial attention to deeper states of equanimity, characterized by increasingly refined subjective experiences.
- The second and higher jhānas focus on mastering bodily energies and tranquility, leading to a state of mind-body integration known as samādhi.
- The exploration of jhāna meditation provides insights into the subjective experience of consciousness, raising questions about the nature of the subject-object relationship in neuroscience.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00178/full
Summary:
- The study explores the concept of human default consciousness (DCs) and its disruption through Buddhist jhāna meditation, contrasting it with other states like anesthesia and coma.
- DCs are defined as a sensory consciousness that evaluates experiences against personal needs, forming the basis of self-experience.
- Jhāna meditation aims to intentionally withdraw from DCs, leading to a state of stillness called jhāna consciousness, which facilitates insight.
- EEG findings from the study reveal unique brain activity patterns during jhāna meditation, including spindle activity and high-voltage slow waves, differing from typical meditation EEG profiles.
- The study suggests that experienced meditators can consciously evoke clonic seizure-like activity, indicating a profound disruption in their DCs.
- The paper highlights the need for more in-depth studies on jhāna meditation, as previous research has largely focused on other forms of meditation.
- The practice of jhāna meditation involves overcoming hindrances such as sensory desire and restlessness, which are seen as key features of the DCs.
- The jhāna states progress from initial attention to deeper states of equanimity, characterized by increasingly refined subjective experiences.
- The second and higher jhānas focus on mastering bodily energies and tranquility, leading to a state of mind-body integration known as samādhi.
- The exploration of jhāna meditation provides insights into the subjective experience of consciousness, raising questions about the nature of the subject-object relationship in neuroscience.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2019.00178/full
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Frontiers | The Human Default Consciousness and Its Disruption: Insights From an EEG Study of Buddhist Jhāna Meditation
The “neural correlates of consciousness” (NCC) is a familiar topic in neuroscience, overlapping with research on the brain’s “default mode network”. Task-bas...
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Find the code for same on git repo below
github/ElJuanDeag/TRexVision
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There is a good chance you have seen something similar before, as video is a tired and tested play on our persistence of vision. I did it as a fun exercise to recreate a phenomenon…
github/ElJuanDeag/TRexVision
Update :
There is a good chance you have seen something similar before, as video is a tired and tested play on our persistence of vision. I did it as a fun exercise to recreate a phenomenon…
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Anna's Archive offers high-speed access to its full collection via SFTP to groups training large language models in exchange for large contributions of money or data.[17][18] It said it provided such access to about 30 companies as of January 2025, primarily…
finally, PaaS (piracy as a service)
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