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Have you ever meditated?
by gf263 10y ago
Have you ever meditated?
- CoryG89 10y agoI guess it depends on your definition of meditation, since it's not an actual physical or mental state someone can be definitively in or not in. I might say that I meditate every night when I sleep for 5-8 hours.
- smallnamespace 10y ago> since it's not an actual physical or mental state someone can be definitively in or not in How do you know that?
- CoryG89 10y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability I cannot know that, and neither can anyone else. The reasons being that meditation does not have a good scientific definition and is not falsifiable. We shouldn't consider it as science until both of those reasons change.
- smallnamespace 10y agoI don't understand why rigorous science is required to answer a simple question like 'Are you meditating?', as long as someone has provided you with a common-sense definition. Science hasn't unraveled all the mysteries of consciousness, or ethics, or economics either, but that doesn't force us to remain silent on those topics. You might think that meditation is a bunch of hocus-pocus and isn't real, but science hasn't decided either way.
- corecoder 10y agoIf he had, would the points he made be stronger or weaker? Do meditation today improve the reliability of past studies conducted by other people?
- gf263 10y agoI was just wondering.