mysticism

A lot of beliefs in mysticism comes from hacking the brain through learning to change one's perspectives.

"other sources of knowledge" - like what, mysticism?

Believing in mysticism might be crap, but it's certainly worth thinking about.

The mysticism around ANN seems to come and go at least once per developer generation since the 50s

Signal processing mysticism repeats itself every 20 years and has been fueled by tremendous hype since its debut 400 years ago:1.

There is some science to some of it, buried deep deep under the mysticism and bs. Unfortunately, people expect "five palm exploding heart" when the best they can hope for is probably "make someone's arm go numb if you're lucky and they're arranged right.

At best it is the shadowy outline of a future theory, at worst it is politics, mysticism, and superstition masquerading as science.

I've found that, at least for me personally, quantum mechanics is much less strange when you ignore the sensationalistic, new-age mysticism quips and focuses on the actual math itself.

We have the ability to be more detached, even from our own circumstances, and report our experiences without the mysticism and sentimentality.

It always turns me off when people use mysticism as a comforting hand-wave for things which can readily be be stated more plainly, as if shedding some rationality on a subject makes it any less awesome.

I am very much interested in the history of religion and mysticism, and I always find it fascinating how magic works its way back into our lives -- contrary to Max Weber's assertion -- no matter our background.

They significantly curtailed the systematic corruption, clarified property rights, introduced representative government, paved the way for social mobility, and are really solely responsible for the slow turning away from pernicious Hindu mysticism -- which is the bane of civilization.

There had to be a whole new scene, they said, and the only way to do it was to make the big move either figuratively or literally from Berkeley to the Haight-Ashbury, from pragmatism to mysticism, from politics to dope... The thrust is no longer for "change" or "progress" or "revolution," but merely to escape, to live on the far perimeter of a world that might have been.