While this is a brilliant idea in the sense of being a novel way to test a hypothesis, trying to reprogram people’s brains so as to make them experience more suffering strikes me as an ethically dubious way of doing the test. :)
I wouldn’t expect just a one-off meditation session where they experienced strong suffering to be enough, but rather I would expect there to be a gradual shift in intuitions after living with an altered ratio for a long enough time.
While this is a brilliant idea in the sense of being a novel way to test a hypothesis, trying to reprogram people’s brains so as to make them experience more suffering strikes me as an ethically dubious way of doing the test. :)
I wouldn’t expect just a one-off meditation session where they experienced strong suffering to be enough, but rather I would expect there to be a gradual shift in intuitions after living with an altered ratio for a long enough time.