[Buddha-l] buddhism and brain studies

[Richard Hayes]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:29 +0800, [DPD Web] Shen Shi'an wrote:

> Actually, the experiment illustrates not so much of Zen meditation
> destroying "one's ability to learn from one's experience", but how it
> can train the mind to "unlearn".

That is a much more charitable interpretation than the one I would give.
What I am inclined to say is that what the experiment illustrates is the
penchant of psychologists to perform experiments that give us blinding
insights into the obvious.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico