How scientists are bringing advanced meditation out of the monastery

Re:How scientists are bringing advanced meditation out of th... by nprateem on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @07:45AM (#37234402)

Your requirement for physical evidence is biased and so discounts the possibility that non-physical evidence may be available.

It's like saying "I believe in X. I won't accept any evidence against X. Since Y is against X, Y doesn't exist"

This means you'd never realise X was wrong in the first place.

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Re:How scientists are bringing advanced meditation out of th... by jules22 on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:40AM (#37259146)

If it's around for 3000 years, show the plentiful "non-physical evidence". If you still need to talk about the "possibility", it's just flim flam BS.

If you think testimonies are evidence, and are making appeals to antiquity/tradition, you just aren't thinking in an educated way. None of that is "evidence".

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Re:How scientists are bringing advanced meditation out of th... by maleldil on Friday August 25, 2023 @04:55AM (#37259561)

Except that we've seen plenty of times that "non-physical" evidence doesn't exist and has never been relevant, and usually there's a better physical explanation. So by default, it's fair to assume that non-physical evidence doesn't exist, and if you use that in argument, the burden of proof is yours.

I'm open to accepting non-physical evidence if you can prove it exists. If you can, that would be very interesting, but it's likely that you can't. Again, anecdotes and tradition aren't evidence.

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