RE: Question on mind
March 2, 2022 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2022 at 11:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 2, 2022 at 4:17 am)Belacqua Wrote:(March 2, 2022 at 3:33 am)miaharun Wrote: Hello, I just wante to know what you guys think of this analogy. We make children and they get our flesh and blood but where do they get their mind or conciousness ?
Your bio says you're a Buddhist, so I'm curious about your take on this.
Are there Buddhist teachings on mind that you're aware of? Would there be an orthodox Buddhist answer to the question you pose in the OP?
No mind. No self. What we think of as our mind and our self is actually a collection of transient events.
Radical material reductionism, in todays terminology. What's interesting is that's how it started. That was the buddhas take (allegedly) - and buddhists have spent all the time since trying to find a way to disagree with that notion and reassert some sort of fundamental or metaphysical consciousness as a permanent agent that conforms to our intuitions about ourselves without directly contradicting the doctrine of no self no mind. Which is to say that they explored compatibilism.
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