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BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Is Meditation a Science?
Meditation is not a science in the sense of modern experimental science or we are pursuing it. It arises also from a particular way of thinking about science that I don't think is particularly good for science. If you say something like as some meditation teachers do that what you're doing when you're practicing meditation is cultivating an inner telescope with which you can look at the mind, Galileo turned his telescope into the planets. The minute you say somethinglike that you're treating your own subjectivity your own mental life as a tool as an instrument. That's distorting because it's not an objectivity or consciousness or lived experiences precisely that which is not objective in that sense or not objectifiable its can
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