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Think of it as analogous to things like computer crashes, core dumps, etc. To a first approximation, the brain is a computer and can fail catastrophically in analogous ways. And most people aren't running Erlang but something very fragile.
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It's just that meditation is somewhere between daydreaming and sleeping. Feels like something about as far from any conceivable failure points as possible.
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ah no, it's not a lightbulb. Your mind may feel like that to you based on how much you've dug into it, but it's definitely way more complex than that -- and you know it objectively. It's a 1 kg mass of billions of neurons with billions of connections. It's obviously more complex
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no we don't, that's why this conversation will go nowhere... but the thread I quoted is 100% empirically true as an overview of the consequences of meditation practices. Make of that what you will.
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