EEG doesn't tell us anything about dreaming either, except that it's occurring, based on subjective reports when sleeping subjects are awakened. IOW, the EEG signatures of people who are dreaming are identifiable as such.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <emptybill@...> wrote : Apparently none of the posters on this thread read the short article by Swartz about the difference between mindfulness and awakening to the innate awareness that makes us what we are. The actual discussion by James Swartz was about the difference between the practice of Buddhist Vipassana and its relationship to the Vedanta teachings about awakening to one’s invariant witness-awareness. EEG's indicate nothing about Lightmint and have never demonstrated anything about consciousness "as such". The assumption is that EEG brain activity enumerates variant forms of subjectivity, all the while never investigating this unsupported claim itself. That assumption is not challenged because it attacks the very funding-base (University and Institutional) that supports most of these studies. Read it and Weep, Weep, Weep. “The reflected awareness that bounces off the tiny mirror of an individual intellect and makes perception and inference possible casts such a small penumbra of light that it is impossible for it to reveal the complete cognitive process. It may reveal those parts of the chain of experience that are less subtle than it but it cannot illumine the causal factors of which it is an effect. Modern psychology has developed an understanding this process, which Vedanta does not contradict. But, because it assumes that consciousness is an effect of matter, it does not understand the actual relationship between awareness/consciousness and matter and therefore is of no help in our inquiry into the self.” James Swartz, Discrimination between the Self and the Not-Self
