neuroscience

Part of an ongoing series on belief. David Brooks generated a lot of discussion with his column in May on “The Neural Buddhists“: Scientists have more respect for elevated spiritual states. Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania has shown that transcendent experiences can actually be identified and measured in the brain (people experience a [...]

Tagged as: atheism, belief, buddhism, epistemology, neuroscience, philosophy, pragmatism, psychology, religion, william james

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