Brain Science with Ginger Campbell, MD: Neuroscience for Everyone BS 202 Is Meditation Mind Science? with Evan Thompson
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Nov 25, 2022 AI Snips
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Retreat Experience
- Evan Thompson attended a 7-day Vipassana meditation retreat designed for scientists and clinicians.
- The rhetoric promoted introspection as a science, yet the practice followed a Buddhist framework.
Mind and Consciousness
- The claim that meditation reveals the mind's fundamental nature is problematic.
- Consciousness doesn't reveal its inner workings or dependencies through introspection alone.
Embodied Cognition Analogy
- The mind isn't solely contained within the brain, just as flight isn't solely in a bird's wings.
- The mind emerges from brain-body-environment interactions, enabled by the brain's relational capacity.