[HN Gopher] Neuroscientists Claim to Have Pinpointed the Brain S...
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       Neuroscientists Claim to Have Pinpointed the Brain States Unique to
       'Team Flow'
        
       Author : wombatmobile
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2021-10-10 05:51 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | nefitty wrote:
       | I expected something more granular than brain waves, but it's
       | interesting nonetheless.
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       | Some of my favorite memories are playing music with my friends.
       | In the moment it has no philosophical flavor because everyone's
       | focus is so pinpointed on performing, but afterwards,
       | intellectually it felt like we were a single entity for a few
       | moments. I've also had this happen during pair programming a few
       | times.
       | 
       | Incidentally, if this brain waves stuff is interesting to people,
       | earlier this year I found out that there's research showing that
       | ADHD is correlated with more theta states. Theta is like a low-
       | level, comically chilled out brain. I struggle with ADHD symptoms
       | and medicine hasn't helped. I have a Muse meditation headband
       | that does some crude but fun measurements of brain states. Sure
       | enough, when looking at the raw data, my brain was overwhelmingly
       | in theta states just as the research had found... I'm afraid that
       | maybe I meditated incorrectly for years and accidentally nerfed
       | my own noodle.
        
         | handsarebags wrote:
         | Thank you for this comment.
         | 
         | Could you expand a little around your last sentence: >
         | ...afraid I meditated incorrectly...
         | 
         | The dots to your argument didn't quite connect for me. Maybe
         | there's some well known fact about meditation and theta states
         | I don't know about?
         | 
         | Curious what you think was incorrect for your circumstance?
         | 
         | Do you have another approach to meditating that you think is a
         | better fit now?
         | 
         | Regards
        
       | krono wrote:
       | Story time: I used to work as a sommelier in a high-end
       | restaurant as part of a very close-knit team of highly trained
       | and experienced professionals. At some point we became so attuned
       | to each-other, that even guests regularly asked if we were
       | telepathic or if we were communicating wirelessly.
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       | The busier the day or the more chaotic the environment, the
       | deeper this "connection" went. These "Team Flow" events resulted
       | in some of the best reviews and highest/most tips too and I can
       | still remember all of the occurrences in great detail.
        
       | Barrin92 wrote:
       | from the various accounts of so called 'feral children' or the
       | few experiments that we know of that have been conducted
       | involving depriving children of social contact and the pretty
       | severe consequences it had on development I always wondered in
       | general how much of the functioning of the brain can only be
       | understood in the context of social groups and connectivity
       | between individuals. i wonder how much of a systems approach
       | maybe at some point will enter these fields where people move
       | away from thinking of cognition in terms of individual tasks and
       | potentially start to think of it like more of an emergent
       | property.
        
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