A series of vaguely related links I stumbled thru while doing my normal searches:
Dark Night and What Enlightenment is Like
A pragmatic dharma practitioner lists a few characteristics of enlightenment. A little bit idealized here and there, but a good general list.
How Understanding the Process of Enlightenment Could Change Science
Jeff Warren with some interesting stuff about people having cessations/fruitions in the fMRI machine.
On Enlightenment: An Interview with Shinzen Young
With his student Har-Prakash Khalsa.
Benefits of Long-Term Meditation with Shinzen Young
More enlightenment talk from Shinzen, a transcript from the Thinking Allowed television series.
Levels of Organization in General Intelligence
This is a long treatise on artificial intellignece. I didn't bother to read the thing, but I noticed the abstract simplified intelligence down to the following organization: code > sensory modalities > concepts > thoughts > deliberation. It's kind of like dependent origination.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Humor Similar to Meditation
This study looks at EEG responses to humor and sees similarities with (probably) Lutz - Davidson's EEG study of Tibetan monks practicing loving-kindness meditation.
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