Attention in the Predictive Processing Framework and the Phenomenology of Zen Meditation.
In this paper I will use the phenomenology of Zen meditation (zazen) to look at the role of attention within the predictive processing (PP) framework. Section 1 introduces PP, according to which the brain is a dynamical, hierarchical, hypothesis-testing mechanism. Section 2 discusses the current pro...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Consciousness Studies Vol. 24; no. 11/12; pp. 71 - 94 |
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2017
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