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#89: Consciousness, Perception & Reality - Donald Hoffman, PhD

The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology

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The Relationship Between Buddhism and Hinduism

I'm curious if you've had any exposure to spiritual traditions, or how they might fit in with your work. It's really interesting to me the buddhist concept of emptiness - which says that time, space and objects are basically empty of inherent existence,. And the dama pada from traditional buddhism talks about mind as the forerunner of all things. Soi it's really interesting that they came to these conclusions just by observing, not through the scientific method, per se, but just by observing how their minds work.

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