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A few years ago the Dalai Lama was visiting an American medical school and watched a brain operation. Afterwards, he chatted with the surgeon, telling him how his scientist friends had patiently explained to him that all of our thoughts, feelings, memories, dreams and other mental activities are the products of electrical and chemical activity in the brain. But he had always wondered something, the Dalai Lama told the surgeon. If electricity and chemistry can produce thoughts and all the rest, can thoughts act back on the physical stuff of the brain to change its chemical, electrical and other physical properties?
Lab Notes : The Lotus and the Synapse
How many sides of science need to come to the same conclusion until bodymind consciousness becomes a serious discussion? How about an entire generation of baby-boomer, Viagra-ridden diabetic dementia? I think I could find you one of those.
