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		logicchains on April 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it? It's not about describing the mind, it's about modelling the mind. E.g. if we have some reasonable axioms: thinking about things can cause suffering, how reaction to something depends on how we value it, and our values can be change, then from those axioms it follows that we can change how much we suffer from thinking about things by changing our values.

dmos62 on April 3, 2020 [–]

True enough. There's some balance to be struck between being observant and letting observations turn into blinding beliefs.

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