Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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The Path to Enlightenment
Buddhism is about reducing the role that feelings play on perception and cognition. But does it mean seeing things as they are in a way best suited to human flourishing? Let me give you an example. People tend to overestimate the velocity of approaching objects, but numbing them with drugs would make them less likely to do so. So if we apply that distinction to the idea of eliminating craving, attachment, disidentifying with anything as self, it seems to me an open question.
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