BaconServ comments on Meditation Trains Metacognition - Less Wrong

29 Post author: BrienneYudkowsky 20 October 2013 12:47AM

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Comment author: BaconServ 21 October 2013 09:12:41PM 0 points [-]

total subjective silence

Non-verbal/linguistic auditory simulation does not qualify as silence, no.

However, being able to bypass thought is indeed a useful skill, especially in meditative contexts.

Comment author: CronoDAS 22 October 2013 02:14:18AM 2 points [-]

Often, if I'm not thinking about anything in particular, my brain defaults to playing a song rather than doing nothing.