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Everybody dismisses thousands of years of religious and philosophical traditions all the time. How many Christians give even a second thought to Buddhist philos
by simonh 5y ago
Everybody dismisses thousands of years of religious and philosophical traditions all the time. How many Christians give even a second thought to Buddhist philosophy of the mind? How many Hindus give a fig what Christians think about the nature of the soul? Some sure, but a teeny, tiny minority.
I actually find Buddhism and various mystical practices fascinating because they involve practical disciplines. They actually invoke mental states and get repeatable results.
Meanwhile neuroscience is busily sorting it all out once and for all, as science has done so many times before on so many previously intractable questions of natural philosophy. I’m confident we’ll figure it all out, but maybe not in my lifetime. Probably in those of my children though.
- trevyn 5y agoNeuroscience has pretty much sorted it all out already, it’s just gonna take some time for people to believe it.
- mellosouls 5y agoPeople would be happy to believe it if these sorts of wild claims were backed up by references that supported them. Any explanation of consciousness agreed on generally as settled in the same way other great theories (relativity, quantum mechanics, evolution, etc) are settled would be famous.
- mellosouls 5y agoEverybody dismisses thousands of years of religious and philosophical traditions all the time. Not everybody. Those who do we generally consider ignorant and arrogant when they do so.