Philosophical ideas and acting "as though"

[Angrboda]

Sooooo..you mean thinking, not meditation.  We do that all the time.

No, I don't mean thinking.  To compare it to a computer, thinking is the contents of RAM, the function of the CPU and so on.  Meditation I'd describe as rewriting a firmware OS: there's an intent to change the underlying function in a fairly permanent way.  If you still want to call it thinking, I'd say it's thinking with an intent to make that thinking a permanent fixture at a preconscious level.

I think your understanding of the process of meditation is askew. What makes you think anything is being rewritten in meditation?

I'm also skeptical of this notion that the ramifications of scientific discovery aren't being accounted for in our day to day behavior. What are the ramifications of hard determinism with regard to our behavior regarding questions of the will? It's not clear that the ramifications suggest we behave any differently than we do. In any case, you haven't shown that there is such a case. And what of the idea that most of matter is empty space? It's not. Matter is filled with various fields which maintain its structural form. The ramifications of that don't appear to differ from us treating things as solid, particularly when you take into account that our doing so has more to do with the granularity of our perception, rather than any disparity between 'science' and 'act'. I think you've made up a problem which doesn't exist.