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A new experiment I'll include as a thread... "We are pattern-making creatures, building castles of prediction that separate us from some more fundamental source. https://paragraph.com/@mirrorandloom/the-architecture-of-attention
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The Free Energy Principle suggests we exist to minimize surprise, fitting our internal models to external reality through elaborate structures of expectation.
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These patterns become predictions—any regularity anticipating future regularity, surviving because they prove useful, like genes encoding successful proteins.
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But intuition operates differently. It feels adjacent to our established timelines, as if accessing information that doesn't quite fit our carefully constructed models.
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Perhaps this is what serendipity offers: a glimpse of alternative pathways, adjustments to our priors that transcend worn tracks of experience.
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When something feels intuitively right but rationally inexplicable, we might be detecting patterns our conscious architecture hasn't yet catalogued.
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Meditation invites us back to what exists before division. In the present moment, there is no prediction and no past—only a uni-dimensional pulse of immediate experience.
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This return to formlessness isn't escape from pattern-making but renewal of it.
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Moving out from no-form allows more basic shapes to reform, potentially creating more accurate pictures of reality as it currently exists rather than as our accumulated models insist it should be.
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The challenge of our era is over-fitting: complex forms that work perfectly for yesterday's conditions but fail catastrophically when circumstances shift. We see this everywhere—in social media silos, in algorithmic feedback loops, in minds trapped by their own predictive success. People rebuild endlessly from the same priors, unable to adjust.
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