Mark Miller

I am co-hosting a brand new weekly podcast - The Contemplative Science Podcast - exploring the exciting new frontiers between science and meditation. The show is part of the new, and amazing @Monash_M3CS. Our website: thecontemplativescientists.com, and Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4beJ6YLCz…

New on @DrJohnVervaeke Lectern series: Generations of Joy - the first course on #predictiveprocessing + happiness. Covering the new science of emotion & mood, depression & meaning, meditation & enlightenment, flow & play, wisdom & flourishing. Check it out lectern.johnvervaeke.com

Excellent new #neurodharma publication! Learning to attenuate myself: a predictive processing account of body-scan meditation and the dissolution of bodily boundaries academic.oup.com/nc/article/202…

In Toronto? Wanna learn why we enjoy being terrified? And why seeking out fear—an emotion designed to make us run the other way—and why it might be good for our mental health? Come hear my lecture at the Viaduct Fall 2025 Lecture Series. Tickets here: lu.ma/0gwa5l52

@_torontosociety Absolutely cannot wait!

The second season of the Viaduct kicks off next week! @PredictiveLife will unpack the psychology of horror. 🎟️ and details below.

Had an amazing chat with Lama John Makransky on the incredible depth and power of compassion training! Check out the newest episode of The Contemplative Science podcast here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/uoft/…

Loved chatting with @PredictiveLife about The Dawn of Mind on The Contemplative Science podcast recently podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Relatedly, a favorite moment from my podcast convo with @PredictiveLife

I hosted @voxdotcom's philosophy podcast, on how predictive minds benefit from varieties of chaos w/ @PredictiveLife. Meditation, psychedelics, art, horror movies — each nears the "edge of informational chaos," & optimizes life's resistance to entropy: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you…

After which this hum can be recognised at will. Full paper: osf.io/preprints/psya… Kudos: @JonasHMago, @PredictiveLife, @shamilch

New PREPRINT! Pure awareness, entropy, and the foundation of perception. Our computational take on minimal states of consciousness. Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Short film release for pain awareness month. A conversation between andy with lived experience of chronic pain and richmond, the pain coach. richmondstace.com/short-film-rel… #thepaincoach #chronicpain @MICardiff @dibbygibby @mikepegg1 @keith_meldrum @PeteOSullivanPT @Jerry_DurhamPT

It took another month, but the collection is now complete and properly posted through that link! Check it out!

🔥NEW SPECIAL ISSUE🔥 Special Issue in @NeuroConsc: Experiencing Well-Being A collection of the best Active Inference researchers exploring what flourishing looks like for predictive-systems like us! Edited by @JulianKiverste1, @ineshipolito and myself academic.oup.com/nc/pages/exper…

In this episode of The Contemplative Science Podcast, the wonderful philosopher of cognition Mark Miller (@PredictiveLife) and I discuss Jewish spirituality. We talk about "child mind" in Hasidism, dynamics btw psychedelics and tradition, and much more. youtube.com/watch?v=4I4_1K…

Loved this conversation with @PredictiveLife and @jamie_slevin Exploring modern thinking about pain. youtu.be/nEa3UHb0Gos?si… #thepaincoach #ChronicPain @PeteOSullivanPT

Looking for optimistic research on the positive impact #AI can have on our lives? We’ve got some! New collaborative work with Ben White (@Midnite_biscuit) - Ambient Smart Environments: Affordances, Allostasis, and Wellbeing? - just dropped in Synthese! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Newest episode of The Contemplative Science Podcast has André van der Braak discussing Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity! Check it out here: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uoft/…

New favorite term: "belief hygiene" Courtesy of Mark Miller. @PredictiveLife open.spotify.com/episode/3kf4dM…

@LeahBTherapy Thanks for the little bump Leah! Isn’t it awesome?!

Cognitive scientist, Mark Miller @PredictiveLife , breaks it down for those who, if they were being honest, would put their hands up when asked if they think percpetion goes from outside in.