people are more willing to accept bad psychology explanations if they include irrelevant brain facts...neuroscience is especially effective as a rhetorical distractor...seductive details...unlimited jargon...reductionist & materialist explanations...
In a striking difference between novices and monks, the latter showed a dramatic increase in high-frequency brain activity called gamma waves during compassion meditation.
Aurelius meditated that, “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
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