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Monks See Through Optical Illusion Games

Posted by timothy on from the use-your-illusion dept.

FhnuZoag writes "Nature is reporting that Buddhist monks, highly trained in meditation, were better able to maintain focus in a set of computer generated illusions designed to confuse the brain. The particular illusions involved showing different images to each eye, and maintaining a state of motion-induced blindness. This may be scientific proof of the efficacy of meditative study. The full, original article may be downloaded here. (500 KB PDF)"

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  1. efficacy by epine · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I thought "efficacy" was related to the root "effective", but apparently it's a sibling to Papacy.