Trepp, Tenzin C.: Deconstructing the Prediction Machine: How Meditation Modulates the Cognitive Boundary Between Mind and World.

This paper explores how meditation serves as a tool to modulate and reconfigure the cognitive boundary between the subjective self and objective reality. By integrating Cognitive Constructivism (CC)—which views the mind as a "prediction machine" that constructs experienced reality—with Existential Realism (ER)—which emphasizes the primacy of the immediate "now"—the study examines the deconstruction of internal mental models. A mixed-methods neurophenomenological approach is proposed, combining m