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Evan Thompson - Expanding Our View of the Mind

Mind & Life

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The Self Is an Ongoing Process That Enacts an Eye

The self is an ongoing process that enacts an eye, and in which the eye is no different from the process itself. Just as it's misguided to think that a dance is inside the muscles of a dancer, instead of being an expression of the whole body in dynamic interrelation with the world and other dancers. And neural science has shown that ino buddhism is right, that there is no self.

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