Dr. Alok Kanojia

The reason why this is really important is because not everybody is a Buddha.

So the reason we have to start with physiology is because we're doing scientific studies to make predictions.

Why are we making predictions?

At least for me, it's to help a human being.

So I don't care that there's some yogi who's been in the cave in the Himalayas for 60 years and attained some weird channeling of divinity.

What I wanna know is like when a human being comes into my office and I tell him to meditate,

How much can I pull back on their SSRI if they've been sticking with the practice?

Right.

So you have to start.

Science is about reliability, not about possibility.

That sounds so new age, but it's about what we can reliably predict.

And that's a really important place to start.

Going back to the Nidra thing.

This is the thing to understand.

So if you think about planning, planning is a higher order cognitive function that depends upon other baser cognitive functions.

And I'll just give you a simple example.

If I care about parties, my mind will automatically plan parties.

If I care about

avoiding other people, I will automatically plan how to avoid other people.

So the planning that you do is whatever, but which things are you planning?