You Can’t Learn Anything About the World From Meditating
Against the ontological relevance of meditation
You can’t learn deep truths about the world from mindfulness meditation.
More precisely, you can’t come to learn any propositional knowledge about the world. This isn’t to say that mindfulness meditation isn’t valuable, it is. It’s a tool for increasing focus and discipline. And a way to practice reducing cognitive fusion.
Yet several claim that you can l…