I wonder if you have had the experience of transcribing numbers and discovered you had made a mistake. Acting to correct the mistake it is repeated. It seems reasonable to me that the first instance of writing the numbers laid down a physical trace "engram" which represented
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the path of least resistance. If you have had this experience or a similar experience it is easy to suggest that any change in belief also entails a change in neurology. Perhaps the practice acts as a solvent dissolving or weakening the physical traces left by past actions.
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I agree that habits are encoded neurally in the way you describe, as are changes to those habits. But I think the force that helps people make changes (i.e. mindfulness) isn't reducible to any such encoding or even to some neural capacity like those subserving executive functions
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So, yes, one consequence would be the dissolving of those encoded traces, which aligns very well with the Buddhist concepts of karma and dependent origination and how it's overcome through practices related to emptiness!
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Treating mindfulness as inhering in metacognitive beliefs that map onto executive functions (that are neurally based) and change how they function is a way to explain this dissolution process without positing some dualistic force outside of cognition, no ghost in the machine!
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I tend to think of mind as electro-chemical with mind functioning as either a path of least resistance mechanism or as artifact of the electrical activity a field effect transcending the biology. Possibly the ghost is a desired effect of transforming the minds center of gravity
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The term standing wave comes to mind in the context of field effect.
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"Early scholastics speak of the Buddha as having a physical body and a second body, called a “mind-made body” or an “emanation body,”
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The mind-made body likely refers to an out-of-body experience, usually associated with meditative absorption and the realm of celestial beings. Classically, it's considered a psychic power.
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Digging a bit deeper it also indicates an energy body complete in all the details. Reference is not handy at the moment will source it a bit later. Beyond that, energetic or astral bodies can be found in a wide variety of traditions.
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The mind-made body can be understood as the equivalent of a subtle body, an internally perceived and experienced correlate of the physical body, characterized by physical qualities such as shape, manifested from the physical body via the mind's activity.
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Digging a bit deeper it also indicates an energy body complete in all the details. Reference is not handy at the moment will source it a bit later. Beyond that, energetic or astral bodies can be found in a wide variety of traditions.
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https://zennist.typepad.com/zenfiles/2015/07/the-buddhist-astral-body.html … "He draws that body out of this body, having form, mind-made, complete with all its limbs and faculties. This is a fruit of the homeless life more excellent and perfect than the former ones."
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