Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

by Robert Wright

Evolutionary psychology can be described in various ways, and here’s one way I had described it in my book: It is the study of how the human brain was designed—by natural selection—to mislead us, even enslave us.

The real-life Matrix, the one in which we’re actually embedded, came to seem more like the one in the movie—not quite as mind-bending, maybe, but profoundly deceiving and ultimately oppressive, and something that humanity urgently needs to escape.

Feelings tell us what to think about, and then after all the thinking is done, they tell us what to do.

Perception is an active, not a passive, process, a process of constantly building models of the world.