[Buddha-l] Enlightened golems

[Timothy Smith]

Whoa...now I know why those guys wear tin foil hats.
Timothy Smith
Wheelwright Associates
www.wheelwrightassoc.com

On Jun 10, 2007, at 10:35 PM, Joy Vriens wrote:

> Michael wrote:
>
>> The following is a brief review of Sharing Begley's _Change Your  
>> Mind,
>> Train Your Brain_, subtitled "How a new science reveals our
>> extraordinary potential to transform ourselves," Foreword by the  
>> Dalai
>> Lama, Daniel Goleman the Preface.
>
> I think the book needs to be updated by adding a  new chapter on  
> building enlightened cyborgs. Buddhism will become obsolete if the  
> Dalai-Lama, Alan Wallace's meditation guinea-pig retreat team and  
> the rasayana researchers at Tel Aviv University get together to  
> develop a neuromemory chip that will guarantee awakening for all.  
> Who needs upadeshas when you can have your neurons do all the hard  
> work?
>
> "This is like teaching by liberation," Ben-Jacob says. "We liberate  
> the excitatory neurons to do what they want to do."
>
>
> SCIENCE NEWS
> June 06, 2007
> A Step Toward a Living, Learning Memory Chip
> Israeli scientists imprint multiple, persistent memories on a  
> culture of neurons, paving the way to cyborg-type machines
> By Nikhil Swaminathan
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0306422B- 
> E7F2-99DF-3809798634B2D416&chanID=sa003
>
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