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Dr. Mark Miller Teaching "The Happy Mind"

Extracts from the course NEW271 "The Happy Mind: Scientific Perspectives on Wellness," taught in 2025 by Drs. Mark Miller and Elli Weisbaum, both of whom teach in the Buddhism, Psychology and Mental Health program. The course explored the science of how to cultivate a happy mind, drawing on research from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and contemplative traditions to investigate what it means to live a fulfilling life. Students engaged with scientific models of well-being, including computational neuroscience models, computational psychiatry, and the neuroscience of emotions. They studied how the mind constructs its reality through predictions, emotions, and habits, examining both the promises and perils of these processes. Mark Miller is a philosopher of cognition who applies tools of conceptual analysis and theoretical model building to answer fundamental questions about human cognition – about the way that human beings think. His research investigates the implications of a leading new perspective on cognition, which conceptualizes the mind as an engine of knowledge-driven predictions. He explores how developments in cognitive neuroscience may help us gain a clearer understanding of the impact that our increasingly technologically-mediated world has on our happiness and well-being. He is developing new perspectives on contemporary discussions in domains such as human-computer interaction and socio-technical systems, with a specific emphasis on human flourishing. Learn more at https://easelab.ca.