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Uh, how exactly? What's unfalsifiable about self-reflection leading to painful confrontations, or those confrontations being provocative in ways that can manife
by vanderZwan 4y ago
Uh, how exactly? What's unfalsifiable about self-reflection leading to painful confrontations, or those confrontations being provocative in ways that can manifest differently depending on the person? To name just one superficial aspect of mindfulness.
Are you claiming that sports exercises are unfalsifiable? Because the principle is the same, except that we're talking about the mind instead of physical fitness.
- bpodgursky 4y agoJust to be blunt about it, people lie about the state of their mind all the time. People make stuff up for attention, to fit in, or just for fun.
- vanderZwan 4y agoSo? That might make it hard for you and me to figure these things out in daily life, but psychology as field of science has been trying to study the mind rigorously for at least a century by now, and it's not exactly naive about this problem.
- naasking 4y agoSure, and people lie on surveys used in studies too. Only some percentage lie like this though.
- weregiraffe 4y agoYes, and you can never know which percentage, so surveys in general only teach you about how people answer surveys.
- naasking 4y agoOf course we can. fMRI will be able to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate brain states.
- op00to 4y agoUsed to work in a neuroscience labs. fMRI can not be used as a lie detector.
- naasking 4y agoNot as a lie detector, but to detect whether the underlying mental state is actually present. It seems almost certain that if someone is experiencing or has experienced a state of supreme bliss and is recalling it, that has to pretty visible on fMRI, as compare to someone who has never experienced supreme bliss and is just saying they have.