Martial arts has to be one of the largest mines of spurious mystical nonsense that I'm aware of.
Agreed. To be a bit clearer, I give zero credence to the "iron shirt" stuff and the like. But when someone who can do impressive things says "I think about it in terms of X" then that suggests to me, not that X necessarily has any physical reality, but that X may well be a useful approximation to or metaphor for what's really going on. Does that make any sense?
Regarding the acupuncture study, what's interesting is that it doesn't matter where you stick the needles - providing compelling falsification of the "meridian" hypothesis (at least insofar as it applies to acupuncture).
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Agreed. To be a bit clearer, I give zero credence to the "iron shirt" stuff and the like. But when someone who can do impressive things says "I think about it in terms of X" then that suggests to me, not that X necessarily has any physical reality, but that X may well be a useful approximation to or metaphor for what's really going on. Does that make any sense?
Regarding the acupuncture study, what's interesting is that it doesn't matter where you stick the needles - providing compelling falsification of the "meridian" hypothesis (at least insofar as it applies to acupuncture).
Agreed. Elegant, isn't it?