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On Sam Harris and Stephen Fry’s Meditation Debate February 19th, 2019 · 44 comments A few weeks ago, on his podcast, Sam Harris interviewed the actor and comedian Stephen Fry. Early in the episode, the conversation took a long detour into the topic of mindfulness meditation. Harris, of course, is a longtime proponent of this practice. What sparked the diversion in the first place is when, early in the conversation, Fry expressed skepticism about meditation.

Typically when we find ourselves in a chronic state of ill health it’s because we’ve moved away from something natural that our bodies have evolved to expect.Paleolithic man didn’t need gyms and diets because he naturally exercised and didn’t have access to an overabundance of bad food.Mindfulness mediation, by contrast, doesn’t seem to be replicating something natural that we’ve lost, but is instead itself a relatively contrived and complicated activity. Harris’s response was to compare meditation to reading. Read more » Myth Confirmed. Andy Johns's answer to Facebook Growth & Traction: What are some decisions taken by the "Growth team" at Facebook that helped Facebook reach 500 million users. Jonathan Markwell's answer to What are the best tools for rapidly prototyping a web-app. What are some good free web scrapers / scraping techniques. Christian Bitter's answer to Big Data: What is the best way to store and catalogue large datasets.

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