"Over the past several decades, studies examining the potential for meditation to curb mental anguish and increase wellbeing have yielded promising, if complicated, results. For patients, complications can arise when meditation is marketed as a ‘happy pill, with no side effects’. This commodification and oversimplification is at the root of a conundrum for Jay Sanguinetti … Continue reading Meditation Without Meditating
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Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong? – The New York Times
"But there was a worst-case scenario: A partly revived post-mortem brain, trapped in a feverish nightmare, perpetually reliving the very moment of its slaughter. 'Imagine the ultimate sensory-deprivation tank,' a member of the N.I.H.’s Neuroethics Working Group told me. "No inputs. No outputs. In your brain, nobody can hear you scream.'" —Matthew Shaer—Scientists Are Giving … Continue reading Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong? – The New York Times
