Question: If you are a sincere seeker in the West, where should you go to meditate and “study” truth? (Also, I’m a very conceptually driven person, as we all are, so I appreciate you telling me to stop conceptualizing in the book).
Also, I’m studying to become a neuroscientist. You mentioned in the book you mentioned to a physicist how you wrote a paper arguing for the primacy of mind over matter, and you got laughed at, being told soon we’ll have conscious robots. I imagine this viewpoint is even more rampant in neuroscience, and I tend to keep my mouth shut. Do you have advice for scientists who believe in “mind over matter”? I feel it’s unethical to keep my mouth shut if I want to be a scientist who stands up for truth, but I’m also not sure how to not make other scientists angry. Response to ¶1: It is not possible to seek Truth since Truth is all we ever directly experience. It’s a matter of seeing (perceiving) not seeking (conceptualizing). As for “study,” practicing meditation with one who has eyes is paramount. (I don’t actually tell you to stop conceptualizing in the book but only to recognize when you do. Meditation, when properly carried out, will take care of this.) Response to ¶2: If believers in matter over mind challenge you, ask them about “the hard problem.” If they get angry because they can’t even approach it, it’s certainly not your fault. You might, however, be able to help them recognize that it’s actually an FEQ. Comments are closed.
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