They should test the Dalai Lama too, and unmask the truth.
Buddhist monk's brain produces highest reported level of gamma waves
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#12I really would have liked to read more than those few lines about said gamma waves.
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#14You can actually use these electrical signatures to make meditation a trackable, quantifiable "exercise activity". Just like you log running miles with, say, RunKeeper. Really cool to see more people getting excited about it the science! Disclaimer: cofounder at a startup doing this.
I'm really looking forward to track my meditation properly.
I looked into the available devices and so far no decent hardware for a decent price is available without hacking.
All the best to you guys to bring this to the mainstream. The neurosky apps and headset are not my cup of tea.
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#15If I'm not mistaken, this is a very thin veneer of science applied to a thick spread of dogma. 1. Test shows that smart subject is smart (capacity to learn, etc). 2. Subject of the test says meditation makes you happy. 3. The author then tries to make science say meditation makes you happy: 'It is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested.'
He was the happiest man tested, but they haven't tested very many people. "Matthieu Ricard... has been the subject of intensive clinical tests at the University of Wisconsin, as a result of which he is frequently described as the happiest man in the world. It's a somewhat flattering title, he says, given the tiny percentage of the global population who have had their brain patterns monitored by the same state-of-the-art technology.... The fact remains that, out of hundreds of volunteers whose scores ranged from +0.3 (what you might call the Morrissey zone) to -0.3 (beatific) the Frenchman scored -0.45."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/matthieu-r...
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#16That's all fine and dandy, but what about his Midi-chlorians levels? Shouldn't they focus on what's important?
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#17I first misread the HN link's title as "gamma rays" and thought a radioactive monk sounded awesome! Then I read the actual article, I am disappoint...
I thought for a minute they had unlocked the reason all that meditation never truly helped Bruce Banner...
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#18You can actually use these electrical signatures to make meditation a trackable, quantifiable "exercise activity". Just like you log running miles with, say, RunKeeper. Really cool to see more people getting excited about it the science! Disclaimer: cofounder at a startup doing this.
Does your app only work on a smart phone, or can it work on a macbook?
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#19If I'm not mistaken, this is a very thin veneer of science applied to a thick spread of dogma. 1. Test shows that smart subject is smart (capacity to learn, etc). 2. Subject of the test says meditation makes you happy. 3. The author then tries to make science say meditation makes you happy: 'It is not difficult to see why scientists declared Matthieu Ricard the happiest man they had ever tested.'
He was the happiest man tested, but they haven't tested very many people. "Matthieu Ricard... has been the subject of intensive clinical tests at the University of Wisconsin, as a result of which he is frequently described as the happiest man in the world. It's a somewhat flattering title, he says, given the tiny percentage of the global population who have had their brain patterns monitored by the same state-of-the-…
He's probably quite happy that he gets so much attention and has to do so little except sit around and smile.
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#20You can actually use these electrical signatures to make meditation a trackable, quantifiable "exercise activity". Just like you log running miles with, say, RunKeeper. Really cool to see more people getting excited about it the science! Disclaimer: cofounder at a startup doing this.
Sorry if others don't like this but can you elaborate either by pointing me at your startup, with more science or both? I'm going to go on a Google spree but I'm curious about your take. This is completely foreign to me, it fails my bs test but to hear not just the words scientific, but quantifiable, piques my interest.
Why does the brainwave headset appear to include a pair of headphones?