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Does the Willpower Instinct contain any sort of actual empirical analysis of the subject? Or is it just someone with a PhD saying something? Because medical pr
by KirinDave 14y ago
Does the Willpower Instinct contain any sort of actual empirical analysis of the subject? Or is it just someone with a PhD saying something?
Because medical professionals can believe in magic and bullshit just as easily as anyone else.
- bennesvig 14y agoYes. It mentions actual studies and evidence. http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/01/24/brain-structure-changes-after-meditation/22859.html http://psychcentral.com/news/2011/01/24/brain-structure-chan...
- KirinDave 14y agoBut these studies are on noticing structural changes, not changes in the subject's capability. What makes meditation better at this than, say, sitting down and doing math homework or going out and doing exercise? There's a lot of research to strongly correlate regular physical activity with intelligence (random googled summary with many citations here: http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/brainandex.html http://www.unm.edu/~lkravitz/Article%20folder/brainandex.htm...).