I don’t know. The paper is worth reading: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/520cf78be4b0a5dd07f51048/t/5a661a71f9619ae2f5fa0520/1516640881471/Nichols_et_al-2018-Cognitive_Science.pdf …
Could be. Although they are themselves close-knit communities, like army units (which may successfully train soldiers to place unit over self). And in many cases they’re closely interwoven with secular community life as well, despite rhetoric to the contrary.
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I wonder if having children has a larger effect on losing fear of loss of individual self than education + meditation.
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Plausible! But note again that the study didn’t look at meditators at all.
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