BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson
Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone
Why Buddhism Is True?
Buddhism is somehow magically more scientific because it's supported by neuroscience. There was one chapter about a writer who's written a book, why Buddhism is true. And he basically argued that if we strip away from Buddhism, its traditional religious metaphysical elements are true according to the framework of evolutionary psychology. So I have a critique of this that involves a number of different things. The appropriate question about Buddhism isn't really whether it's true under that rendering but whether it's a valuable human tradition with insights in conversation with other traditions.
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