Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror.
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Global Priorities Institute
globalprioritiesinstitute.org
Antikythera
antikythera.org
Meditation Research Program
meditation.mgh.harvard.edu
a high-functioning Silicon Valley executive suffers from partial seizures in a region within the posteromedial cortex (on the inward-facing side of the cortical hemisphere, along the midline) during which his sense of self is distorted, including his perceived location in space; he eavesdrops on his own thoughts, a form of depersonalization. Direct
... See moreChristof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
Richard J. Haier • The Neuroscience of Intelligence (Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology)
In sum, there is preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of fNIRS-neurofeedback for improving motor rehabilitation and executive functions, particularly for improved inhibitory control (Marx et al., 2015; Hudak et al., 2017) and cognitive flexibility (Hosseini et al., 2016; Li et al., 2019).