Summary of Dalai Lama's Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The brain is also dynamic in a personal, subjective, interactive sense. When you gaze at a waterfall, for example, something amazing happens perceptually. The perceptual apparatus has adapted itself so as to slow down the motion of the falling water, which allows it to be more precisely observed.
#2 The brain’s potentialities are so large that we must be in awe of them. We must understand, however, that there are many things we don’t yet know about the brain and the mind, and that we are unsure about many things.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie
• Buddhism
• Tibetan
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822549517
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Dalai Lama's Where Buddhism Meets Neuroscience
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The brain is also dynamic in a personal, subjective, interactive sense. When you gaze at a waterfall, for example, something amazing happens perceptually. The perceptual apparatus has adapted itself so as to slow down the motion of the falling water, which allows it to be more precisely observed.

#2

The brain’s potentialities are so large that we must be in awe of them. We must understand, however, that there are many things we don’t yet know about the brain and the mind, and that we are unsure about many things.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The mind is not independent of the brain, and it is the brain understood as organized and functioning in a certain way that produces consciousness.

#2

The Greeks were interested in the nature of space and time, the substance of matter, the change of things, and the origins of life. They were also interested in humans and how they can know the world outside them according to some sort of internal representation.

#3

The notion of representation is not precise. It is hard to say whether animals have conceptual representation, and if so, what it looks like. Some representations are very objective, such as my representation of Pat or this table, while other representations do not relate to the objective world as we perceive it, but they are still representations in the sense that they exist in the brain in the form of patterns of activity.

#4

The questions that were of interest to the ancients had to do with the nature of space and time and substance, and so forth. As people began to construct hypotheses about these matters, and as they began to test them experimentally, the questions shifted into a different domain.

#5

The question of whether we can develop a natural science of the mind is addressed within Western philosophy. The assumption behind this question is whether mental states or the mind are identical to brain states. Some people answer yes, and some people answer no.

#6

There are many reasons why someone might be a materialist. The most important is that it requires no independent stuff to explain the existence of mind and consciousness. The relationship between psychological states and brain states is probably one of identity.

#7

The brain is a wonderful example of how mind and brain dependencies work together to produce our thoughts and actions.