Absorption could provide a valuable concept with which to advance theories on ASCs. Increasing degrees of absorption seems to facilitate the occurrence of ASCs via an enlargement of information processing within the explicit system. Contrary to the assumptions of the THT, these exercises aim at bringing the maximum amount of information to the explicit system. In contrast, ancient Buddhist texts communicate varying depths: these writings refer to different stages of mindfulness, and describe mind exercises that bring about deeper stages of ASCs, via absorption. The implicit, unconscious, system of mainly subcortical origin concurrently takes predominance. temporarily suppressed, due to transient prefrontal cortex deregulation. For instance, the prominent transient hypofrontality theory (THT, Dietrich, 2003) assumes that ASCs emerge because the capacities of the explicit, conscious system of mental functioning are. Contemporary theories give such different depths little theoretical consideration. Flow, as well as other altered states of consciousness (ASCs), is traditionally described as being of different depths.
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