RE: What are your thoughts on Richard Dawkins?
March 29, 2017 at 8:46 am
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2017 at 8:49 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(March 28, 2017 at 11:01 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... and that still doesn't doesn't make it pseudoscientific, because it doesn't pretend to be definitive across all people.
It can't be definitive across ANY people because mindfulness is first person and science is third person. Mindfulness is subjective and science is objective. Science is phenomenological and requires observers to collect data from the world they experience... but it can't collect data of experience itself.
(March 28, 2017 at 11:01 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... and that's the thing: we do have control over how we observe and accept things. Simply because you cannot do that doesn't mean it cannot be done. "We" is not encompassing; you cannot speak for those of us who use mindfulness to find balance.
But we don't have control over how we observe and accept things because we don't have control over out brain or motivation.
They think mindfulness helps them find balance but what they think isn't the same as what actually happens and as you know the placebo effect is well documented.
