Real0ne
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ORIGINAL: Real0ne for most people yep the ass. quieting the brain has nothing to do with queting the subconscious, only conscious distractions are quieted. I can’t tell you how often I am asked this question. And the answer is always the same. The real goal of meditation is not to quiet your mind. http://aboutmeditation.com/quiet-your-mind/ I am still trying to figger out what your point is and where you are trying to go with this and quantitative expression. All I see is non sequitur, and if you cant give us some kind of description how you are trying to relate this to these scans I will just write it all off as throwing shit at the wall So okay, from your link, The goal of meditation is to be comfortable with the ruckus in your head. You want to get really good at ignoring the relentless stream of thought that runs like the Mississippi through your mind. And that’s a subtle art. That is acceptable. According to you then a meditator has to work extra hard and use more brain power to ignore the clutter of busy shit in the mind. That may be true but it is laughable and incongruous. Also, once again (I realize you are trying real hard) I would like to know how scanning the brain of ONE atheist lends validity to any of this shit. My point is that without a quantitative measurement of alleged differences we must rely on your judgment of which scan has more or less of which colors. How do you know the scan on the right is busier? How much busier is it? Subconscious thoughts vs Conscious thoughts. "Only conscious distractions are quieted." You write as if only conscious thoughts are generated by the cerebral cortex, leaving the impression that the subconscious thoughts are elsewhere in a different level of the mind. That is the impression Freud left with us 100 years ago. It would be hilarious if you were evaluating modern neurobiological scans with a 100 year old Freudian model. All thinking goes on in the cerebrum AFAIK, so when you are evaluating an EEG or an fMRI scan you are evaluating both conscious and subconscious electrochemical activity. You knew that, right? Freud gave us a model of the Mind, not of the Brain, believing in his time they were two separate realities. However, until proven otherwise, subconscious and conscious thoughts are emergent processes of the same neural networks. So, bring me the head of the atheist!!!!! Btw, when I ask you a question about quantitative data you don't have to try to guess what I am up to. Please, just answer the question if you can or simply say "I don't know" if you can't. I don't know or I was wrong are the two most difficult admissions to be found on these boards. They are rare and precious. According to you then a meditator has to work extra hard and use more brain power to ignore the clutter of busy shit in the mind. False, not according to me, according to your spin and misrepresentation. But it doesn't say that anywhere in the link I gave you, so that's nothing more than a story line spin coming from you, someone who clearly is clueless about meditation. Yes your spin is incongruous and laughable I agree. Oh there you go switch from quantative expression to quantitative measurement two entirely and completely different, totally unrelated things, ffs vince So you need me to measure it to prove that there's more red while meditating, is that your problem Vince? If that is meaningless and incomprehensible to you, no amount of additional data can open a turned off mind. So after telling us that you understand how to read the color chart here you are saying that you need me to read it for you....what the fuck is up with that over? Busier? WTF? Is there no end to your strawman creations? nobody said busier you said busier and it is a complete misrepresentation. So now you you want to argue about Freud and pretend he is incorrect, with no substantiating evidence whatsoever simply more of your same spin. Just because it is an emergent process hardly means it's the same process clealy you are again trying to traction by again misrepresenting this by selling your wacky idea that because gray is between black and white both black and white are really Gray [the same] come on Vince try to take this up at least to the academic level of a high schooler ffs
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