I find that really interesting and I sympathetic to the view that we want to kind of switch between different models and different situations. A scientist in their work they might say, well, in order to believe something I need to have some kind of a testable hypothesis and someone needs to independently verify it. Whereas when they go home to their wife or husband, if their wife orhusband says, I love you, they don't need to confirm that in a randomized controlled trial to believe it - right? Right. And so I think you and I see similarly in that way, but I think we're perhaps we diverge is that I don't assign a kind of uniform distribution across ontologies.
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Why should we meditate? What are the typical developmental stages as one progresses along the contemplative path? What does it mean to "hold an ontology loosely"? Are some meditative techniques inappropriate for some practitioners? Are there risks associated with meditation?
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