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Meditation for example (vipassana in particular) helps you tune into information coming at you through feelings in various parts of your body. An ancient text s
by Nomentatus 4y ago
Meditation for example (vipassana in particular) helps you tune into information coming at you through feelings in various parts of your body. An ancient text said that good monks "always keep their attention on their bodies," for this reason. Antonio Domasio is the leading researcher on how taking the body out of the equation hamstrings humans in making decisions, whether about poker hands or what house to buy. His former students are doing some great work, too.
- andrei_says_ 4y agoAll decision making is based on emotion. George Lakoff mentioned in one of his lectures that people with a specific brain injury involving access to emotion, lose their ability to make decisions. Any kind of preference is based on emotion. All decisions stem from having a preference for one outcome over another. The thought processes claim to make the decisions, and to be “rational, but they always serve preferences. The ability to expand one’s awareness beyond thinking gives access to a universe of phenomenae in a space larger and containing the thinking activity.