How does hypnosis work?
By monsooner
@monsooner (467)
India
January 20, 2007 8:35pm CST
Okay, so I'm a materialist. I don't think that there is any such thing as a "mind" beyond the causal relations in our brain, or a soul beyond our ignorant inferences from the past. Can someone explain to me, using cognitive science, how the process of hypnosis works?
1 response
@unisis (1673)
• Indonesia
22 Jan 07
As with anything, hypnosis can be good, bad or indifferent. The most common is old-style authoritarian hypnosis of the type "You are getting sleepy, you are feeling confident". Unsurprisingly, this sort of hypnosis doesn't work well with many people. Good hypnosis uses subtle psychological principles and advanced communication patterns.
