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Kiana Ward

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Cognitive neuroscience MSc @ Radboud University Interested in embodied & enactive cognition, predictive processing, consciousness, meditation, buddhist philosophy

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Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i

🚨 New article in #NCONSC

Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness
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04.03.2026 02:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i

Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness url: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

23.01.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i

Cool new paper from Kiana Ward, putting Buddhist accounts of Non-Dual Awareness into dialogue with constraint closure to provide a robust elaboration of the predictive processing line that altered states involve the relaxation of higher-level predictions.

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21.01.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness Abstract. Non-dual awareness (NDA) refers to a shift in consciousness in which the usual distinction between subject and object dissolves, and experience i

Excited to share my paper on an enactivist account of non-dual awareness, integrating ideas from constraint causality and Nāgārjuna’s notion of emptiness!

Modeling non-dual awareness via constraint closure: a reinterpretation of groundlessness url: academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

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