[Buddha-l] the advent of the meditation machine?

curt curt at cola.iges.org
Thu Oct 11 07:14:58 MDT 2007


Richard Hayes wrote:
> Surely everyone would agree with you that if someone were to state boldly that 
> the firing of neurons is "all there is" to religious (or any other kind of) 
> experience, that person would be stating an untestable hypothesis. But who 
> has ever made such a claim? 

Reductionism is not something that I invented for the purpose of this 
argument. That reductionists prevaricate when the going gets tough is 
also nothing new.

Curt Steinmetz


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