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Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Are We Biased by Feelings?

Buddhism is a philosophical and psychological tradition that looks particularly good in light of what we now understand about the process that created the human brain. I don't think it's going so far to say, well, I don't want to say superior because I'll get, I'll get,. I'll look, all spiritual traditions have their great things but you can understand that I'm saying there is something special about this philosophical and psychological part of Buddhism. The Stoics are probably ultimately not as analytically sharp about it as the Buddhists, I would say, but they've got that insight. Then there is stoic meditation, but it's different. There are stoic,

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