# lost-in-thought — RSS Amplifier

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## [Discussion: Hasenkamp et al., 2012](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/discussion-hasenkamp-et-al-2012)

_2025-07-19 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

Mind wandering and attention during focused meditation: A fine-grained temporal analysis of fluctuating cognitive states.

## [How to stop thoughts](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/how-to-stop-thoughts)

_2025-06-20 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

The first article on consciousness I ever wrote.

## [Understanding, aha!, and the chimpanzee](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/understanding-aha-and-the-chimpanzee)

_2025-06-09 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

Anybody in the mood for a wild-ass hypothesis?

## [The most important idea in Indian philosophy](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/the-most-important-idea-in-indian)

_2025-06-08 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

LLMs prove it's true because they think without consciousness

## [Brains are to consciousness as plants are to sunlight](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/brains-are-to-consciousness-as-plants)

_2025-06-07 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

Natural selection made use of consciousness. It didn't create it.

## [Outline of a hypothesis about the lost-in-thought state](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/outline-of-a-hypothesis-about-the)

_2024-11-08 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

What causes unhappiness?

## [Other names for the lost-in-thought state](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/other-names-for-the-lost-in-thought)

_2024-11-07 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

This is the third article in the series on the lost-in-thought state.

## [A possible reason why natural selection chose consciousness](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/a-possible-reason-why-natural-selection)

_2024-11-01 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

Analog computations may save energy

## [The lost-in-thought state](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/the-lost-in-thought-state)

_2024-10-31 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

A state of profound unconsciousness... but is it really?

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## [How to recognize the lost-in-thought state](https://freddieyam.substack.com/p/how-to-recognize-the-lost-in-thought)

_2024-10-30 · Freddie Yam · Toward a Science of Consciousness_

It can be noticed only by contrast