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Neuroscience backs up the Buddhist belief  that “the self” isn’t constant, but ever-changing

Neuroscience backs up the Buddhist belief  that “the self” isn’t constant, but ever-changing | Peer2Politics | Scoop.it
While you may not remember life as a toddler, you most likely believe that your selfhood then—your essential being—was intrinsically the same as it is today. Buddhists, though, suggest that this is just an illusion—a philosophy that's increasingly supported by scientific research. “Buddhists argue that nothing is constant, everything changes through time, you hav
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Slavoj Žižek. The Buddhist Ethic and the Spirit of Global Capitalism. 2012

Slavoj Žižek, contemporary philosopher and psychoanalyst, discusses Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki, Western Buddhism, the West, capitalism, science, ideology, ...
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