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Discussion: Hasenkamp et al., 2012
Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states.
Jul 19, 2025
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Freddie Yam
June 2025
How to stop thoughts
The first article on consciousness I ever wrote.
Jun 20, 2025
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Freddie Yam
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Understanding, aha!, and the chimpanzee
Anybody in the mood for a wild-ass hypothesis?
Jun 9, 2025
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Freddie Yam
The most important idea in Indian philosophy
LLMs prove it's true because they think without consciousness
Jun 8, 2025
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Freddie Yam
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Brains are to consciousness as plants are to sunlight
Natural selection made use of consciousness. It didn't create it.
Jun 7, 2025
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Freddie Yam
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November 2024
Outline of a hypothesis about the lost-in-thought state
What causes unhappiness?
Nov 8, 2024
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Freddie Yam
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Other names for the lost-in-thought state
This is the third article in the series on the lost-in-thought state.
Nov 7, 2024
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Freddie Yam
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A possible reason why natural selection chose consciousness
Analog computations may save energy
Nov 1, 2024
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Freddie Yam
October 2024
The lost-in-thought state
A state of profound unconsciousness... but is it really?
Oct 31, 2024
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Freddie Yam
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How to recognize the lost-in-thought state
It can be noticed only by contrast
Oct 30, 2024
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Freddie Yam
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How Ramana Maharshi realized the Self
He simulated death and watched what happened to him. It may not sound like atma-vichara but the experience is the same.
Oct 29, 2024
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Freddie Yam
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Trapped in a dictionary
One of the consequences of the fact that AIs aren't conscious.
Oct 28, 2024
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Freddie Yam
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