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From Neuroscience to Neuro-Consciousness. Towards an Integrated Science. Second of Two Essays on Neuroscience

Posted on March 19, 2020 3:00 pm by Christopher Comment

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Essay 1. How Much Does Neuroscience Rely Upon Inference? (see next blog)

Headings

  • Consciousness and its Content
  • Shortcomings of Looking into the Brain
  • Pleasure and Pain
  • Mind the Gap
  • No Getting Away from Consciousness
  • The Consequences of Exclusion
  • The Buddha and Science. Never the Twain Shall Meet
  • Intelligence and the Brain
  • A Perverse Duality
  • Meditation on the Infinite.

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The World is not Within You. A Quote from the Buddha

Posted on March 18, 2019 12:49 pm by Christopher 1 Comment

Words of the Buddha can offer inspiration and insight – even if the quote in English from the Pali language may not accurately reflect the original. Continue reading →



Myself? Yourself? What self?

Posted on October 17, 2018 5:06 pm by Christopher Comment

Lots of views about the self (or ‘I’) arise.

Every view of the self, of I, might seem real or some views seem real at the time.

We might express a few or many of them.

Here are 35 views. Read slowly, please.

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We are impressionable. Such a blessing. Such a challenge. Freedom through seeing the Emptiness of I and My. Transcription of Part Four of Four Inter-Active Modules. Q and A.

Posted on March 14, 2018 5:47 pm by Christopher Comment

On Sunday 12 March 2018, I had an interactive hour on screen with participants worldwide.

Organised by Realize Media (www.realizemedia.org), this course consists of a deep exploration of the Goal of Dharma/spiritual practice. Continue reading →



When you feel depressed….12 Practices to overcome depression

Posted on January 10, 2018 8:54 am by Christopher 1 Comment

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A person falls down a well into the water. It is cold and dark down there. The person has enough motivation to climb up the stepladder to get out of the well. One or two people at the top of the well give some support as the person slowly climbs out of the well into the daylight. Continue reading →




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