markov anxiety

[anechoic <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Kim, I know you've mentioned you're a practising Buddhist.
>Do you have any comments on releasing attachment to
>this external world especially music?

very interesting question...since I am not a by-the-book buddhist not do I
belong to any one sect or school of buddhism I mainly use it to maintain
clarity...here is a scientific fact: we are NEVER fully aware of the
present...we are always processing what *just* happened which registered
via our perceptual apparatus...what we are doing during this delay is
constructing a pattern based on past events and statistically predicting
the future using this information...our brains are somewhat like higher
order Markov chains...we tend to collect information from the world around
us by taking in large sets of data and matching it to historical data...so
this process produces a delay in our cognitive apparatus...meditation is
the only thing that can move us into a very close approximation of the
temporal present...this helps us 'wipe the windshield clean' so we can view
the outside world with more clarity...a good byproduct of this is that we
can better experience our enculturation as programming and step away from
it a little...
hope this doesn't read like hippy-shit! ;)