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Pseudo science with an academic veneer.

• kough 10y ago
  ... Should be the official Nautilus tagline. It certainly seems to be their governing principle. Well, actually, that's forgetting "needlessly overwritten"
• myflash13 10y ago
  The empirical and phenomenological observations across centuries and cultures by different mindfulness practitioners about the nature of the human mind are not to be dismissed so easily, even if they have had varying levels of rigour in their discipline.
• chillacy 10y ago
  The science is pretty solid as far as psychology goes. Thinking Fast and Slow is often recommended on HN because it provides such a good overview of how the mind makes decisions with what Kahneman calls system 1 and 2. He ended up winning a nobel prize for his work in decision theory. However I think matching what we know is right to ancient texts is the sketchy part. After all, there's plenty that's wrong in the ancient texts, we just don't see them.