Enlightened brains are basically identical to normal brains. Control flow might be slightly different, but...
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all basic structures, subroutines, faculties, etc., remain intact. Behavior more or less the same pre/post.
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Fun anecdote about an enlightened (PNSE) study participant experiencing stress.pic.twitter.com/rW7Jx6AkF2
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Bottom line: Enlightenment is a less radical change than it's typically made out to be.
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Replying to @KevinSimler @The_Lagrangian
I don’t think “enlightenment” is a thing (although there are various things in the vicinity)
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and, yeah, it’s wildly overhyped. My writeup: https://www.google.com/amp/s/vividness.live/2012/09/13/epistemology-and-enlightenment/amp/?client=safari …
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Replying to @Meaningness @The_Lagrangian
haha this is greatpic.twitter.com/qZx8uaZTYn
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Replying to @KevinSimler @The_Lagrangian
That’s how it mostly seems to go in practice.
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OTOH, the people I know who seem “most advanced” in Vajrayana do seem significantly different from baseline >
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>in ways that are difficult to describe, and might not show up experimentally unless you knew exactly what to >
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look for, but which I think are important based on the small distance I’ve gone myself.
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