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Meditation interests me. I've read a technique book and a number of studies on its influence on executive-functioning. However I only meditated for a short time, and was not particularly skilled. I eventually ruled out the effect of meditation on executive-functioning. I could not find sound evidence of far-transfer existing in other domains, and failed to see why meditation would be an exception. With the information gained from this book, I need to reassess the plausibility of this.
It seems reasonable that while far-transfer of skills such as piano influencing mathematics ability are unlikely that different activities can influence our thinking dispositions. For example it might be that meditation does not improve the ability of the algorithmic mind to perform the decoupling from serial associative cognition (mind wandering) but that it does change the patterns of thought in the reflective mind which send the decoupling signal to the algorithmic mind.