No Self, No Problem: How Neuropsychology Is Catching Up to Buddhism

by Chris Niebauer

The left brain acted as an “interpreter” for reality. Furthermore, Gazzaniga found that this interpreter was often completely and totally wrong.

In 2006, Doctors Travis Proulx and Steven Heine reviewed research across various disciplines to describe exactly what happens when a belief is threatened.10 What they concluded was that when this occurs, humans turn to other beliefs and increase their intensity.