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Richard Mendius
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“The brain has a wonderful capacity to simulate experiences, but there´s a price: the simulator pulls you out of the moment, plus it sets you chasing pleasures that aren´t that great and resisting pains that are exaggerated or not even real”
― Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
― Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
“Only we humans worry about the future, regret the past and blame ourselves for the present. We get frustrated when we can´t have what we want, and disappointed when what we like ends. We suffer that we suffer. We get upset about being in pain, angry about dying, sad about waking up sad yet another day. This kind of suffering -which encompasses most of our unhappiness and dissatisfaction - is constructed by the brain. It is made up. Which is ironic, poignant and...supremely hopeful.
For if the brain is the cause of suffering, it can also be its cure”
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For if the brain is the cause of suffering, it can also be its cure”
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“...much of what you see “out there” is actually manufactured “in here” by your brain, painted in like computer-generated graphics in a movie. Only a small
fraction of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world; the rest comes from internal memory stores and perceptual-processing modules
(Raichle 2006). Your brain simulates the world—each of us lives in a virtual reality that’s close enough to the real thing that we don’t bump into the furniture.”
― Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
fraction of the inputs to your occipital lobe comes directly from the external world; the rest comes from internal memory stores and perceptual-processing modules
(Raichle 2006). Your brain simulates the world—each of us lives in a virtual reality that’s close enough to the real thing that we don’t bump into the furniture.”
― Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom
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