@shawnprest.bsky.social - Shawn Prest

24 Mar 2026 23:18 +0000

Exciting to see this lifting off :) https://open.substack.com/pub/theconsciousnessfoundation/p/initial-learnings-from-our-science?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

23 Jan 2026 23:29 +0000

For anyone interested in the mechanisms behind "letting go" in meditation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ndy... This was a really fun conversation to have, thanks Josh! (www.linkedin.com/in/joshricha/) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ndy..

01 Dec 2025 22:53 +0000

Hey all, Thomas Metzinger has a new book out, have a look: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0FZH2JPR2?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2EWQD1226VKSF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.HhMI3RW03G9Gdxsyq0BORHmhIbl2fT5EbybI3mvPqTJ9qgZI_kogUVEdR8HUztWlsC7qg6sPJkFo7yAK_PbEcXeMIuCtm3JASD8yIpUjENziGGjWLfACFjsfqnNL-UkoHuUqqT3OSQyHE4AB8s5O0BXOa8iW945BZCq3pxTTsWm0GRQHMsDoyS6XWEviqtIF6y4-qTcV84bP7EaNdszWz63_sC4QeWgOp7r-lcc1-Qg.7aixrG8FsMrT88sWQLkdgz9hiazhyQQooV4cAXJAdCs&dib_tag=se&keywords=bewusstseinskultur&qid=1764317934&sprefix=bewusstseinskultur%2Caps%2C144&sr=8-1#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor @metzinger.bsky.social

18 Nov 2025 09:41 +0000

Excited for the Australasian Society for Philosophy and Psychology (ASPP) 2025 Conference next week in Melbourne 24-25 Nov. I'll be presenting posters on multi-dimensional selfing and affective valence with active inference. https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/aspp-2025-melbourne/

17 Nov 2025 07:54 +0000

Consider participating in this study by if you're starting to meditate (<4 months) and from Australia, New Zealand, UK, or USA! https://psychologicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au/CSC/research/research-studies/tracking-meditation-a-longitudinal-study

13 Nov 2025 14:17 +0000

In Boston, happy to be visiting the Meditation Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School meditation.mgh.harvard.edu @matthewsacchet.bsky.social #contemplativescience https://meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/

12 Nov 2025 14:51 +0000

If you weren't aware and are interested in active inference and predictive processing, check out the Active Inference Symposium @actinfinstitute.bsky.social (just started). It's free, online, and has lots of great talks lined up, as well as workshops on modelling: https://coda.io/d/Applied-Active-Inference-Symposium-2025_d08cdDbWwRy/Presenters_suF824T8#Presenters_tuT9gLpE/r15

09 Nov 2025 14:18 +0000

Looking forward to visiting the Contemplative Sciences Center at the University of Virginia on Monday and having great conversations there! @mclsheehy.bsky.social @monash-m3cs.bsky.social csc.virginia.edu

05 Nov 2025 14:37 +0000

Today is poster day #2 at @iscr.bsky.social here in Chapel Hill. I'll be sharing work on how deep meditative experience challenges existing computational accounts of affective valence. Come by and pepper me with questions, 4:30-6pm :) #ISCR2025

04 Nov 2025 03:47 +0000

If attending @iscr.bsky.social, come by my poster at 4:30pm tomorrow. I'll present work on clarifying selfing with active inference. This is collaborative work with @kevinberryman.bsky.social, @rubenlaukkonen.bsky.social, @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana and Yair Dor-Ziderman.

01 Nov 2025 19:59 +0000

I'll be at the International Society for Contemplative Research 2025 Conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina next week. Looking forward to it and will be on a great panel on Tuesday at 1:30pm with @matthewsacchet.bsky.social, Nicco Reggente, Winson Yang and David Zarka. @iscr.bsky.social #ISCR

21 Oct 2025 03:52 +0000

I'm presenting my work on affective valence, meditative experience and active inference this Sunday 9:30am GMT at the 3rd Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind: https://www.ispsmind.com/international-conference/ Come by!

08 Jul 2025 05:31 +0000

I'll be presenting work today on a poster at @assc28.bsky.social on how deep meditative experience challenges challeges predominant computational views of affective valence. At 12:30pm, come by, booth 179! #assc28