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

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Is the Western Therapeutic Tradition Part of the Western Scientific Tradition?

In the West, we consider something like say, like say, if you overcome your this aversive reaction to feelings of anxiety. If you overcome these things, you will have more equanimity be calmer and suffer less. It's a therapeutic assertion. And we consider therapy part of science. But nothing about my subjective experience is really amenable to direct scientific observation.

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