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Buddhism and Neuroscience
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 Posted by on Friday September 12, @04:51PM
from the there-is-no-spoon dept.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently made a surprising suggestion -- neuroscientists should turn to Buddhism and use meditation as a tool for investigating the mind. The suggestion comes as the Dalai Lama is set to speak to a sold out crowd at MIT tomorrow about bringing Buddhists and scientists together to explore the brain and mind.
Scientists who have met the Dalai Lama say they have been struck at his openness to science. He has said he has been interested in science since he was a boy, when he took wristwatches apart and put them back together.
"This is opening a secret body of rich knowledge that we have not had access to," said Marlene Behrmann, who is speaking at the conference and is a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. "It is a watershed."
Check out this article for the whole story, or read this previous CogNews article about meditation.
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Re: Buddhism and Neuroscience
by on Saturday September 13, @06:31AM
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Not a new suggestion...
Scientists Humerbto Maturnana and Francisco Varella, as well as Elenaro Rosch and thingie Thompson, all advocate Buddhism as a tool to unlock the mind.
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Re: Buddhism and Neuroscience
by on Saturday September 13, @06:56AM
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Not a new idea indeed, but an idea that "pays well". Davidson's star is rising and rising, probably in part because he knows who to choose to be around with, but his idea that positive affect is related with left prefrontal dominance and negative with "right leaning" is more controversial than is acknowledged by many. Other troubling idea: it seems that people who have coped with their early environment by developing an "avoidant attachment" style and who tend to rate their childhood as happy, without being able (or willing) to specify, also are "left-leaning". Those who know something about what becoming a Tibetan monk implied (and this not, or not just, to be blamed to the chinese!), will have a complementary, more troublng understanding of why they can "lean left" so well.
Maarten
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Re: Buddhism and Neuroscience
by on Sunday September 14, @04:08PM
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Incidently, there was a TV show on tonight, IN England, called "Soul Searching".
About a search for the self as more than the self. The source of inspiration and creation and so on.
A big area looked at was Buddhism, and the role of the right hemisphere in consciousness.
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