Bongo comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 1 of 3) - Less Wrong

35 Post author: DavidM 28 April 2011 08:26PM

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Comment author: Zetetic 28 April 2011 09:05:07PM *  14 points [-]

I don't know, this post feels a bit... 'woo' to me. Are there any peer-reviewed studies of the effects of meditation that you think are particularly enlightening? (sorry, I couldn't help myself there)

Seriously, though, I've meditated before but it was difficult to determine whether any perceived benefits were really placebo or not.

Comment author: Bongo 29 April 2011 08:19:12AM 2 points [-]

Indeed. Compare to this earlier post about meditation.

Comment author: DavidM 29 April 2011 11:52:56AM 1 point [-]

In my opinion, the description of meditation in that post has very little in common with the ways that meditation would be described in the context of seeking enlightenment. (No disrespect to the author.)