I like your article very much. You explain different concepts in a wonderful way and I like how you pile up the concepts.
The only point I am not so sure is how much of the brain process to make reasonable decisions is connected to the intuition of discovery and to the perception of nature.
They could be the same thought process. They could be three different thought processes. They could be even more different process working separate or differently. I don’t know enough to get to the conclusion that Damasio's physiological mechanism is able to map all of those different things.
Even in Buddhism, the experiences related to enlighten involve many different brain processes and states.
Reducing them to a symple biological mechanism could be a simplification.
But I like the goal of the article. As I understand it, you are trying to justify that science has demonstrated that the ancient traditions have value.
It is a usual move. I am not so fond of it. I don’t think wisdom traditions need to be justified by science and it risks to make generalizations that are not sustained by science.
Still, I like what you are trying to do. And it works for many people. It helps people to feel they are doing the right things since science has said so.
I am just a bit weary of reducing everything to scientific terms. Many things get lost in translation. The ones that matter the most.
Thanks for articulating this so clearly. This is precisely correct... but I might just add... and I'm not sure if this is implied.... I suspect there could a pathological population who never acquired the logico-reasoning ability
In a world that overly biases toward logic and analysis, I think we've forgotten how to train our intuition, and about the value it provides. Without it, our logic works with much poorer material.
Precisely. Logic without intuition is analysis applied to whatever information is already available. Intuition is the instrument that surfaces what logic would never have thought to analyze. Einstein didn't use logic to arrive at relativity. He used something else first, then used logic to verify it. The verification gets all the credit. The instrument that made the discovery is the one nobody is training.
I like your article very much. You explain different concepts in a wonderful way and I like how you pile up the concepts.
The only point I am not so sure is how much of the brain process to make reasonable decisions is connected to the intuition of discovery and to the perception of nature.
They could be the same thought process. They could be three different thought processes. They could be even more different process working separate or differently. I don’t know enough to get to the conclusion that Damasio's physiological mechanism is able to map all of those different things.
Even in Buddhism, the experiences related to enlighten involve many different brain processes and states.
Reducing them to a symple biological mechanism could be a simplification.
But I like the goal of the article. As I understand it, you are trying to justify that science has demonstrated that the ancient traditions have value.
It is a usual move. I am not so fond of it. I don’t think wisdom traditions need to be justified by science and it risks to make generalizations that are not sustained by science.
Still, I like what you are trying to do. And it works for many people. It helps people to feel they are doing the right things since science has said so.
I am just a bit weary of reducing everything to scientific terms. Many things get lost in translation. The ones that matter the most.
Thanks for articulating this so clearly. This is precisely correct... but I might just add... and I'm not sure if this is implied.... I suspect there could a pathological population who never acquired the logico-reasoning ability
In a world that overly biases toward logic and analysis, I think we've forgotten how to train our intuition, and about the value it provides. Without it, our logic works with much poorer material.
Precisely. Logic without intuition is analysis applied to whatever information is already available. Intuition is the instrument that surfaces what logic would never have thought to analyze. Einstein didn't use logic to arrive at relativity. He used something else first, then used logic to verify it. The verification gets all the credit. The instrument that made the discovery is the one nobody is training.