On Dehaene: I read the 2018 version of Dehaene’s Consciousness and the Brain a while ago and would recommend it as a good intro to cognitive neurosci, your summary looks correct.
On meditation: it’s been said before, but >90% of people reading this are going to be high on “having models of how their brain works”, and low on “having actually sat down and processed their emotions through meditation or IFS or whatevs”. Double especially true for all the depressed Berkeley rationalists.
Responding to your Dehaene book review and IFS thoughts as well as this:
On Dehaene: I read the 2018 version of Dehaene’s Consciousness and the Brain a while ago and would recommend it as a good intro to cognitive neurosci, your summary looks correct.
On meditation: it’s been said before, but >90% of people reading this are going to be high on “having models of how their brain works”, and low on “having actually sat down and processed their emotions through meditation or IFS or whatevs”. Double especially true for all the depressed Berkeley rationalists.
Oh, and fun thing: surely you’ve heard the idea that “pretty much all effective therapy and meditation and shit is just helping people sit down until they process their emotions instead of running from them like usual”. Well, here’s IFS being used that way, see from 4:51-5:32.