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Nothing beat personal experience, right? If you're in tune with your body, you can warm yourself and others by projecting heat.

can16358p 5y ago
Yup. I totally know what works as I've experienced things myself. But it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things with n = (enter convincing amount of subjects) where there are many subjective sides in the experiment (e.g. Thinking of something that makes you shiver/goosebump is hard to apply at scale as for many that is result of something subjective and different for each individual) I'd love to see some organization to set up an experiment though.
- krageon 5y ago
  > it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things Why would you? It works, it's a teachable method. To my mind, the inquiry doesn't have to progress far beyond that. Unless perhaps you value doing things solely for knowledge, which is something academia stopped doing ages ago (and arguably never really did).
- throwaway675309 5y ago
  False, it's not difficult at all to set up even minimally rigorous scientific experiment. Now you might not like the results that you gather from the experiment, so I would imagine that it's in your best interest to not pursue and gather actual objective evidence. Take an infrared thermometer, point it at the part of your body that you're visualizing heating up. Observe the results. Took me five seconds to come up with this experiment.
  - can16358p 5y ago
    The hard part was obviously not measuring temperature. It's communicating people how to visualize/think of something that gives the feeling. Because the feeling is subjective and even I as the person experienced it have hard time explaining it. It's much harder to explain it to others and make sure they did correctly. I don't need results anyway, I _know_ it works so there isn't a chance that "I won't like" the results. I just want more people to benefit and an incorrect experiment may block them, not me, from proceeding further.

can16358p 5y ago

Yup. I totally know what works as I've experienced things myself. But it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things with n = (enter convincing amount of subjects) where there are many subjective sides in the experiment (e.g. Thinking of something that makes you shiver/goosebump is hard to apply at scale as for many that is result of something subjective and different for each individual) I'd love to see some organization to set up an experiment though.

krageon 5y ago
> it's kind of hard to set up scientific methodology to prove things Why would you? It works, it's a teachable method. To my mind, the inquiry doesn't have to progress far beyond that. Unless perhaps you value doing things solely for knowledge, which is something academia stopped doing ages ago (and arguably never really did).
throwaway675309 5y ago
False, it's not difficult at all to set up even minimally rigorous scientific experiment. Now you might not like the results that you gather from the experiment, so I would imagine that it's in your best interest to not pursue and gather actual objective evidence. Take an infrared thermometer, point it at the part of your body that you're visualizing heating up. Observe the results. Took me five seconds to come up with this experiment.
- can16358p 5y ago
  The hard part was obviously not measuring temperature. It's communicating people how to visualize/think of something that gives the feeling. Because the feeling is subjective and even I as the person experienced it have hard time explaining it. It's much harder to explain it to others and make sure they did correctly. I don't need results anyway, I _know_ it works so there isn't a chance that "I won't like" the results. I just want more people to benefit and an incorrect experiment may block them, not me, from proceeding further.