Host Michael Taft talks with philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and meditator Dr. Shamil Chandaria about predictive processing because it pertains to meditation, our phenomenal self mannequin, recognizing our personal fabrication hierarchy, changing our prime degree priors as a technique to perceive nondual enlightenment, and way more.
Dr Shamil Chandaria OBE is a philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technologist, and educational with multi-disciplinary analysis pursuits spanning computational neuroscience, machine studying and synthetic intelligence, and the philosophy and science of human well-being. His PhD, from the London Faculty of Economics, was in mathematical modelling of financial methods utilizing stochastic differential equations and optimum management principle. Later he accomplished an MA in Philosophy, with Distinction, from College School London the place he developed an curiosity in philosophy of science and philosophical points in biology, neuroscience, and ethics.
In 2018 Dr. Chandaria helped to endow the World Priorities Institute at Oxford College, an interdisciplinary analysis institute specializing in a very powerful points dealing with humanity. In 2019 he was a founding father of the Centre for Psychedelic Analysis, within the division of Mind Sciences at Imperial School London, a neuroscience analysis institute investigating psychedelic therapies for plenty of situations together with remedy resistant melancholy. He’s additionally funding analysis on the neuroscience of meditation at Harvard College and Berkeley, College of California.
In 2022 Dr Chandaria was awarded a British OBE for providers to Science and Know-how, Finance and Philanthropy. He’s additionally a long-term meditation practitioner.
The Bayesian Mind and Meditation Lecture, by Shamil Chandaria
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