Host Michael Taft talks with philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, technician and meditator Dr. Shamil Chandaria about the predictive processing associated with meditation, and replaces our own manufacturing hierarchy with how to recognize our own manufacturing hierarchy and understand our top-level preliminary layers as a way to understand hidden enlightenment.
Dr. Shamil Chandaria OBE is an academic scholar with a philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, engineer and interdisciplinary research interest across computational neuroscience, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and the philosophy and science of human happiness. His PhD from the London School of Economics was in mathematical modeling of economic systems using stochastic differential equations and optimal control theory. He then completed his MA, distinguishing himself from University College London, and became interested in the philosophy of science and philosophical issues in biology, neuroscience, and ethics.
In 2018, Dr. Chandaria helped award the University of Oxford’s Global Priorities Institute, an interdisciplinary institute focusing on the most important issues facing humanity. In 2019 he was the founder of the Centre for Psychedelic Research at the Faculty of Neuroscience, the Imperial College Institute in London, a neuroscience research institute that investigates many conditions, including treatment-resistant depression. He also funds research into the neuroscience of meditation at Harvard University and the University of California Berkeley.
In 2022, Dr Chandaria was awarded a UK OBE for her services to science, technology, finance and philanthropy. He is also a long-term meditation practitioner.
Shamil Chandaria’s Lecture on Bayesian’s Brain and Meditation
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