MichaelVassar comments on A Rational Education - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MichaelVassar 21 July 2010 05:31:43AM *  3 points [-]

By making you more aware of and more able to deal with, compensate for, control and use emotions, healthier, more energetic, less gullible, etc. Also, in the case of yoga, a better materialist who would propose better hypotheses in mind related subjects and some mechanics related subjects and would be more likely to use analysis and experiment in the right cases.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 21 July 2010 06:28:54AM 1 point [-]

Is there any evidence that merely pursing yoga causes people to have better materialistic theories of mind? I am very skeptical that it leads to experiment!

I think you are saying that these are all good avenues to know thyself, but people compartmentalize so much that I think you really have to say that explicitly.