Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is Enembodied Cognitive Science the Proper Scientific Framework?
The best way to study meditation is through embodied cognition, he says. He argues that evolutionary psychology doesn't work because it's based on premises that scientifically don't really work. The evidence from neuroscience doesn't support the idea of brain as being massively modular in the evolutionary psychology sense, he adds. "This is, put on my cognitive science hat, I'm a philosopher who works in Cognitive Science"
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