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Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True

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The Evolution of Consciousness

A number of serious philosophers have suggested that there's no Evolutionary justification for consciousness. Buddhism or meditation can Unburden us and yet, um, it's kind of weird to think about the possibility that it's not Evolution i don't know from a A secular perspective we have no idea what it is, but it's a little bit weird. I'm going to come back to The religious aspects of my meditation maybe at the end But I don't think believing in god and living leading religious life is inconsistent with with evolution I have no problem with it.

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