I think that’s kind of what meditation can lead to.
It should, right? But isn’t there a very large overlap between meditators and people who mystify consciousness?
Maybe in the same way as there’s also a very large overlap between people who are pursuing good financial advice and people who end up receiving bad financial advice… Some genres are majority shit, so if I characterise the genre by the average article I’ve encountered from it, of course I will think the genre is shit. But there’s a common adverse selection process where the majority of any genre, through no fault of its own, will be shit, because shit is easier to produce, and because it doesn’t work, it creates repeat customers, so building for the audience who want shit is far far more profitable.
Agree? As long as meditation practice can’t systematically produce and explain the states, it’s just craft and not engineering or science. But I think we will get there.
It should, right? But isn’t there a very large overlap between meditators and people who mystify consciousness?
Maybe in the same way as there’s also a very large overlap between people who are pursuing good financial advice and people who end up receiving bad financial advice… Some genres are majority shit, so if I characterise the genre by the average article I’ve encountered from it, of course I will think the genre is shit. But there’s a common adverse selection process where the majority of any genre, through no fault of its own, will be shit, because shit is easier to produce, and because it doesn’t work, it creates repeat customers, so building for the audience who want shit is far far more profitable.
Agree? As long as meditation practice can’t systematically produce and explain the states, it’s just craft and not engineering or science. But I think we will get there.