Last Updated on May 15, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Part I can be found here:
- Did the projects they initiated not lead to the founding of the Center of Healhy Minds in Madison as Richard R. Davidson said in one of the videos on YouTube?
Founder of the Center of Healthy Minds in Madison is Richard R. Davidson:
Daniel Goleman says in the following video that around 100 people are working there:
- Are these around 100 people who work there rich people?
- Rich people who work on privately funded self-experiments?
- Rich people who hope to suffer less after their experiment?
- Rich people who hope to find new ways to suffer less?
- Rich people who hope ot make money out of what they do there?
And has the Dalai Lama Richard R. Davidson project not also lead to the book «Altered Traits»?
- Was this book also privately funded?
- And is it therefore eventually manipulative?
- Manipulative, as many popular scientific books are manipulative, to increase the sales rates of this book?
- For instance, for whom is it relevant, that the effect of 10 min. meditation can be seen in a brain scanner?
- And 20 min. of a daily practice of meditation lead to objectively measurable changes in the brain?
- But do we not usually judge based on our subjective experience to judge if we suffer or not?
- And is it not easy for other people to observe and judge if we suffer or not, for instance for a psychiatist who asks us questions about this topic?
- So is it not not much easier with our own perception, and the perception of others than with a brain scanner to judge over our mental states?
- Richard R. Davidson says it is possible to track very subtile changes in the brain with a brain scanner, for instance changes in blood flow.
- But is it possible at all to track very subtile mental states with a brain scanner?
- And as a consequence for which scientists and psychiatists is the book «Atered Traits» relelevant?
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