@MTK@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 12 hours agoYou own your brain in the same sense that you own modern devices, you own it but also can't really modify it and there is some closed source shit that really control itmessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1268arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1248arrow-down1message-squareYou own your brain in the same sense that you own modern devices, you own it but also can't really modify it and there is some closed source shit that really control it@MTK@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • 12 hours agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
Make our brains FOSS! Why can’t I just tell my brain that now is sleeping time and it will just sleep?!
minus-square@fine_sandy_bottomlink2•3 hours ago Meditation is one way of getting control of your brain. I suspect that most people who have a meditation practice would disagree with this assertion.
minus-square@Free_Opinions@feddit.uklinkfedilink1•37 minutes agoMeditation only helps me be more aware of what the brain is doing / making me do. I can’t control it and I’d argue that neither can anyone else. Free will in the common sense is an illusion.
I suspect that most people who have a meditation practice would disagree with this assertion.
Meditation only helps me be more aware of what the brain is doing / making me do. I can’t control it and I’d argue that neither can anyone else. Free will in the common sense is an illusion.