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In 1665, Christiaan Huygens discovered that two pendulum clocks mounted to the exact same wooden beam spontaneously synchronized their swings over time. When hung from separate, rigid walls, the pendulums drifted out of phase and clattered in perpetual discord. It was the presence of the shared, flexible beam—a physical medium capable of transmitting micro-impulses of… Continue reading Metacognitive Constructs, Intuition, and the Physics of Synchrony

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Against my better judgment in some sense, but because of pure curiosity as to what others will think, I am posting a chat with Gemini here, as a blog article. This is another in the series of articles on how Active Inference, and Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle can frame theoretical concepts found in meditation,… Continue reading And now for something completely different.

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The integration of modern cognitive science with classical East Asian medicine has reached a fascinating threshold. A recent paper published in MDPI’s Brain Sciences presents a pioneer attempt to frame the therapeutic mechanisms of acupuncture through the lenses of Predictive Processing (PP) and Active Inference under Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle (FEP) [1]. At the… Continue reading Active Inference, De Qi, and the Neurobiology of Acupuncture: A Critical Response