Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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I Had a Great Time at That Meditation Retreat
The book is devoted to advocating embodied cognitive science or the embodied view of cognition. What you call neural Buddhism, I'm not sure I'm a neural Buddhist either, but maybe you'll get me clear on that. Or maybe this would be more kind of like a methodological idea that the way to really understand what meditation is and to validate it is by looking at what's going on in the brain when people meditate. So all of that is what I call neural Buddhism. But so why don't you tell us what neural Buddhism is and why you think it's the wrong way and embodied cognitive sciences.
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