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#147 — Stephen Fry

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is Meditation a Good Brain Training Game?

There may be some slight advantage in delaying forms of dementia by playing these games. But i think we all know that brain training games have been found to have zero applicability as far as actually improving the brain is said. There may be empirical evidence, epidemiological evidence, that that works. But i am puzzled to think that you have made claims for, for meditation, for example, that has that it has cognitive effects. And i see, i've always had this terrible fear of almost anything,. Whether it's pharmaceutical or psychoanalytical, psychotherapeutic and so on. To do winh meditation has seen it is a kind of sombifying, a kind of taking the

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