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发帖数: 6523 | 1 Some ID mentioned some Ted videos before, where the author of the book "The
man who mistook his wife for a hat" gave a talk there. Thanks for bringing
this up.
Here's a link of this book:
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/wife-hat.pdf
This whole book is fascinating, especially the chapters 12-14 on Page 56-64.
Chapter 12 is about a man who can't remember anything due to severe amnesia,
and he has to make up stories to try to make sense, but never succeeds,
which leaves him in a frenzy.
Chapter 13 is about a woman who intellectually knows the difference between
categories, but the difference makes no sense nor meaning to her.
Chapter 14 is about an extreme case of Tourette's syndrome on street where
the old woman mimics every passer-by.
The author mentions something in this chapter:
"Hume, as we have noted, wrote:
I venture to affirm ... that [we] are nothing but a bundle or collection of
different sensations, succeeding one another with inconceivable rapidity,
and in a perpetual flux and movement.
Thus, for Hume, personal identity is a fiction—we do not exist, we are but
a consecution of sensations, or perceptions."
But the author disagrees with the above. "This is clearly not the case with
a normal human being, because he owns his own perceptions."
But, isn't Hume's view what a Buddhist naturally feels?
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What are the biological basis for Buddhism? How would it explain the
symptoms mentioned in the book? |
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