everything wrote:do you have a tldr you want us to comment on? I'm not a scientist, but I grew up in a "science town" (where almost all my friends' parents were scientists) and have some training in stats. There is actual scientific method of study supported by statistical methods (to reject that a pattern is due to random mathematical chance) which is about rejecting the null hypothesis (nothing is technically ever proven), and then there is "science".
everything wrote:Sorry not to have fully watched your videos, but if information from scientific studies helps, I agree it seems like a good idea to use it!
For the "mysterious" stuff in taiji, qigong, and TCM, I don't believe scientific studies will be able to explain certain phenomena related mainly to qigong and TCM for a long time. That is mainly for several reasons. 1. Is that there is no good way to do a double-blind study with some kind of control group to isolate factors, so the scientific method can't easily be used as it can in physical science. That doesn't mean the subject is faulty or science "disproves" something. It means the lens can't be used to study the phenomena. That is a big distinction almost all Internet arguments miss and probably will forever miss. 2. No big for-profit entity has anything to gain from funding such studies. Quite the contrary. There is large incentive to attack anything in this area if it's perceived as a threat to big pharma. Only big insurance may have some incentive to support work in this area.
everything wrote:For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.
willie wrote:everything wrote:For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.
Okay fair enough. So now I guess that a reasonable question would be, you've been training now for x amount of years, what do you know about the mysterious part that you can be absolutely sure of?
everything wrote:willie wrote:everything wrote:For sure 100% agreed. Life is so short and we gotta use/do what we can moving super fast from a known Point A to an unknown Point B.
Okay fair enough. So now I guess that a reasonable question would be, you've been training now for x amount of years, what do you know about the mysterious part that you can be absolutely sure of?
almost nothing. I can be sure that things like perfect timing and effortless throws are definitely not "mysterious", qualitatively. But how to consistently pull off either the normal "effortless" or the "mysterious" are beyond me. My best sport is soccer, and I'm strictly old man recreational level. I've played with D1 athletes and ex pros, and seen someone from USMNT up close, and they are on another planet. How would a hobbyist in MA or anything else ever get to "elite" level? It's impossible. Every once in a while a normal person can have the perfect golf swing, but that's nothing mysterious.
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