I agree that it’s surprising this doesn’t receive more attention in EA. I imagine a big part of it is it would get a lot of pushback from the more rationalist EAs who feel like it’s too ‘woo’/new age-y and find the stigma/connotations/vibes around it offputting. It does get a fair bit of attention on Twitter/X though- you might be interested in the discussion around this post.
I do think there would be some appetite in the community to fund research related to this, but am not sure it would appeal to the usual ‘big funders’.
I agree that it’s surprising this doesn’t receive more attention in EA. I imagine a big part of it is it would get a lot of pushback from the more rationalist EAs who feel like it’s too ‘woo’/new age-y and find the stigma/connotations/vibes around it offputting. It does get a fair bit of attention on Twitter/X though- you might be interested in the discussion around this post.
I do think there would be some appetite in the community to fund research related to this, but am not sure it would appeal to the usual ‘big funders’.
I don’t think it’s too ‘woo’/new age-y. Lot’s of EAs are meditators. There are literally meditation sessions happening at EAG London this week.
Also, Qualia Research Institute (qri.org) is EA or at least EA adjacent.
(What org is or isn’t EA is pretty vague)