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Mental Proliferation, with Isabela Granic

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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The Buddhists and the Buddha's Proliferation

I wonder if this is a similar impulse that the Buddhists or Buddha himself the Buddha himself were activating when they were trying to put terms so eight terms for you know whether it's mental proliferation or different mind states basically right and if there's some similar thing when you are naming gods. The self as well as proliferating concepts and abstractions are probably relatively recent we can see some of them coming together especially in this late Bronze Age, he says. Right sorry no no don't be sorry I am going to try and argue that this proliferation thing is new it actually requires it is itself a cultural artifact or whatever you want to call it  and subject to cultural evolution.

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Speaker 2
right sorry no no don't be sorry I wonder if this is a similar impulse that the Buddhists or Buddha himself the Buddha himself were activating when they were trying to put terms so eight terms for you know whether it's mental proliferation or different mind states basically right and if there's some similar thing when you are naming gods and those gods have a relation to your emotions or motivation states or relations with others and so on and they're personified or they're yeah summarized or conceptualized as gods versus what the Buddhists were doing also this incredible fine grain naming of processes that are mental processes that they noticed as they studied more and more their internal environment do you think that's
Speaker 1
true yeah it's a fascinating question I think it probably is true that it's trying to come to some kind of agreement with each other about what's going on with this new found proliferation and I am going to try and argue that this proliferation thing is new it actually requires it is itself a cultural artifact or whatever you want to call it it's subject to cultural evolution the self as well as proliferating concepts and abstractions are probably relatively recent we can see some of them coming together and especially in this late Bronze Age and
Speaker 2
yeah

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