Predictive Processing
Therapy (a Claude experiment)
On Coming Home: "So close I cannot see it"
Thomas Metzinger's research into minimal phenomenal experience showed a surprising pattern across 3,627 meditators: rather than describing pure awareness states as novel discoveries, participants consistently reported "coming home" to something "always already present" that had been forgotten.
People with no philosophical or meditation background spontaneously used spiritual terminology like "always already, always there" etc. Thus, there is something over and above cultural conditioning. This "coming home" phenomenon seems to point to an insight structure where the deepest insights involve the sudden seeing (or "re-cognition") of what was merely overlooked due to its fundamental intimacy ("So close I did not see it").
Note: this is an AI generated application
References / Sources
Thomas Metzinger , "The Elephant and the Brain" (the book resulting from the MPE study)
https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Elephant-Blind-Experience-Consciousness-Experiential/dp/0262547104
The books as mini-app starter:
https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/05873017-76c6-488b-ac53-f9291e15666c
Thomas Metzinger , "Minimal Phenomenal Experience"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc7xwBZC9Hc
Thomas Metzinger,
"Minimal phenomenal experience. Meditation, tonic alertness, and the phenomenology of“pure” consciousness"
https://philosophymindscience.org/index.php/phimisci/article/view/8960/8538
Thomas Metzinger "The Ego Tunnel. The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self"
https://www.amazon.com/-/en/Ego-Tunnel-Science-Mind-Myth/dp/0465020690
My "Buddhist" mirror-experience
https://www.till-gebel.com/post/mirror-mind-ayahuasca-psychedelics-buddhism-experience
Scales of Mystic Experiences
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/list-the-scales-of-mystic-expe-xq_VKVdJQHGzmsN7OAMoqw