My opinion is they are placebo but placebo actually can have effects because you believe they have effects.
I think about it, if you’ve been listening to binaural beats in order to find love don’t you think that you’re going to be more likely to find love and therefore you’re going to be looking for opportunities to validate your beliefs?
If you are listening to binaural beats to lose weight don’t you think that there’s a chance that you will intentionally and willfully act in ways that will increase the likelihood that you will lose weight?
And the best part about placebo is even if you know it’s a placebo effect it does not prevent it from actually working because humans are cool and weird and funny like that.
I think you’re totally on point! I think that’s similar with other religious or spiritual practices, like specific meditations, spells, or rituals - you’re priming yourself to be more aware of opportunities to achieve that goal
Placebo doesn’t work on me if I’m aware it’s placebo. Which sucks. One day I got a headache, took a pill and miraculously, within two minutes the headache stopped. Then I was like “wait, it can’t work that fast, it has to go through your stomach and whatnot”. Headache returned and the pill never worked as fast ever since.
My opinion is they are placebo but placebo actually can have effects because you believe they have effects.
I think about it, if you’ve been listening to binaural beats in order to find love don’t you think that you’re going to be more likely to find love and therefore you’re going to be looking for opportunities to validate your beliefs?
If you are listening to binaural beats to lose weight don’t you think that there’s a chance that you will intentionally and willfully act in ways that will increase the likelihood that you will lose weight?
And the best part about placebo is even if you know it’s a placebo effect it does not prevent it from actually working because humans are cool and weird and funny like that.
I think you’re totally on point! I think that’s similar with other religious or spiritual practices, like specific meditations, spells, or rituals - you’re priming yourself to be more aware of opportunities to achieve that goal
I feel like as a staunch atheist that does his own research to be missing out on alot of placebo effects
Placebo doesn’t work on me if I’m aware it’s placebo. Which sucks. One day I got a headache, took a pill and miraculously, within two minutes the headache stopped. Then I was like “wait, it can’t work that fast, it has to go through your stomach and whatnot”. Headache returned and the pill never worked as fast ever since.