Meditative States As Feedback Loops

A short mechanistic reframe (from Brasington's 'Right Concentration'): the Buddhist jhanas (advanced meditative bliss states) are positive feedback loops -- concentrate hard enough on a pleasant sensation that it self-amplifies, like microphone-speaker feedback, into an 'explosion of pleasure.' Non-meditators can't reach them because they're too distractible to sustain the loop. Updates his earlier 'Going Loopy': the brain's safeguard against runaway emotional feedback isn't elaborate biochemistry but simple distractibility.

Quality 64 · Strong. Strong (64). A neat, compact mechanistic idea (jhanas as feedback loops; distractibility as the everyday safeguard against emotional runaway), clearly put. Capped by brevity and by largely relaying Brasington's framing plus his own prior post.

Claude’s paradigm shift 45 · Moderate. Moderate (45). The feedback-loop framing of jhanas (via Brasington) and the distractibility-as-safeguard self-correction are mildly fresh mechanistic angles.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. 1 -- negligible. A short meditation-mechanism post; within-blog, no material footprint.