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I'd be hesitant to call meditation a game in the same sense that other brain training exercise seem to be. Those games tend to have distinct end points (or mult
by bharath28 10y ago
I'd be hesitant to call meditation a game in the same sense that other brain training exercise seem to be. Those games tend to have distinct end points (or multiple)/goals or something you are ambling towards. Meditation on the other hand, is based on focused observation of how your mind works. When done right, there is no goal or judgement - no end state that you are uneasily pushing towards.
- dhimes 10y agoBut is that the important part of meditation that leads to the results? I don't think we understand it well enough yet to know.
- goldfeld 10y agoWe have in fact understood it for millenia, but scientific instrumentation can't probe it like human inquiry has.
- cJ0th 10y agoAnd this is what I find worrying concerning the time we are living in. Society by and large moved from rejecting science to demanding scientific studies on everything. While this has certainly been a move in the right direction it led many people to having a very limited perception of the real world. There is more than words and numbers and I am not talking about some bullshit magical powers but this stuff has to be experienced. And why do I say this? Because I believe that this stuff which exists besides words and numbers is, like words and numbers, a subset of the resources that enable intelligence. So there is nothing wrong with brain training games and perhaps they do increase intelligence but don't be surprised if training only a tiny portion of what enables intelligence does not lead to enormous results. In my opinion meditation can be an overwhelming perhaps even painful experience and thus it challenges you more seriously than, say, finding the next number in a sequence. No pain, no gain.