No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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What do the Buddhists know that Freud and the psychologists don't? Freud understood that we don't own our minds. He was onto the relative puniness of consciousness in relation to experience. But he didn't see the fluidity and changeability of the internal constellations. He kept trying to pin them down (and that's why his theories kept changing), i
... See moreThe default mode network (DMN) is now believed to be where the neurological basis for the self is housed.
Ivy Ross • Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
A central tenet of Buddhism is that the self is illusory. We are more than our conscious minds and we are wrong to think of our autobiographical self as a 'true self'. Freud's 'ego' is also illusory, insofar as it generates a misleadingly comprehensive sense of selfhood, whereas in reality it is only a small part of a much larger, opaque totality.
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