Meditation and the Scientific Study of Consciousness: From Consciousness to Pure Awareness to Complete Cessation of Awareness

Explore a 54-minute conference talk that delves into meditation's role as a scientific tool for studying consciousness. Learn about three primary meditation styles - focused attention, open monitoring, and non-dual awareness - examined through scientific research, presented within a predictive brain framework. Understand how this framework explains both progressive cognitive effects and unique experiences like non-dual awareness, characterized by the dissolution of self, space, and time. Discover the fascinating phenomenon of complete consciousness cessation, voluntarily induced by advanced meditators, and examine its physiological and neural assessments. Gain insights into how this state fits within predictive processing theory and learn about future research directions in understanding consciousness and the human mind through meditation studies.