Host Michael Taft talks with neuroscientist Ruben Laukkonen about what excessive bodily struggling can reveal about meditation, and why awakening could also be much less a grand attainment than “the grand disappointment.” They discover disenchantment, grace, synchronicity, and the likelihood that religion arises naturally from our embeddedness in realities too massive for us to understand. Ruben describes the unusual authority of perception—how concepts can appear to reach from elsewhere, why their felt depth typically tracks their accuracy, and the way the identical course of can produce compelling false revelations. In addition they focus on psychedelics, embodied creativity, the “mastery of mania,” and Ruben’s analysis suggesting that meditation will increase the mind’s signal-to-noise ratio, with posture functioning as a type of built-in neurofeedback system. The dialog concludes by asking whether or not AI has Buddha nature, whether or not a machine have to be acutely aware to specific knowledge and compassion, and whether or not synthetic intelligence would possibly change into a way of scaling knowledge—or its reverse—all through human tradition.
Ruben Laukkonen is a neuroscientist on the College of Oxford, the place he’s a senior researcher within the Division of Psychiatry, a fellow at Linacre Faculty, director of the Flourishing Intelligence Program, and co-director of the Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing. His analysis seeks an empirically grounded and experientially genuine understanding of meditation, perception, consciousness, and nonduality. His present work additionally explores how mind dynamics and contemplative knowledge would possibly contribute to safer and extra environment friendly synthetic intelligence. Ruben has an eclectic contemplative background, together with Zen, Advaita, and Theravāda, and was approved to show Vipassanā in 2024.
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