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Contemplative practice, particularly vipassana, can be understood as progressive opacification: systematic development of metacognitive access to previously transparent structural features of the generative model

Formal model of the contemplative path as active inference directed at the evidential basis of one's own priors

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There is no self-evidence: A physics of emptiness realisation

(2026) · Lars Sandved-Smith · Chris Fields · Thomas Doctor · Ruben Laukkonen +1

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Vipassana (Insight Meditation)
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Buddhist contemplative practice modelled as active inference directed at the evidential basis of one's own priors

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Buddhist awakening can be formalised as Bayesian model reduction of the separation prior sigma, yielding a post-dual agent with unconstrained QRF deployments
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Central theoretical contribution of the paper unifying contemplative path with active inference framework

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