Experienced meditators in jhana/dhyana states exhibit a shift toward a metastable near-critical regime characterised by increased neural signal diversity, reduced chaoticity and enhanced perturbational sensitivity (Mago et al. 2025)

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  Second empirical convergence with the criticality prediction, using computational brain modelling
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  Argues that Buddhist analysis primes us to find clean neural mechanisms.
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  Anthropic's observation that the paper's results converge with, cited as prior evidence for self-reference inducing consciousness claims
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• Emptiness realisation is accompanied by altered dynamical regimes in neural systems.hypothesis0.754
  Empirical prediction from the model: brain dynamics change after the transition.
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  Predictive conditional comparing two universal drives.
• We discuss empirical predictions, including altered dynamical regimes in neural systems, and the formal relationship between emptiness realisation and compassion.claim0.746
  Meta-statement about the paper's content.
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