Evan Thompson

@evantthompson

Writer, UBC Philosophy, Assoc Member Asian Studies & Psych Depts. Married to

Vancouver
Joined January 2015

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  1. Jan 28

    Oh joy! Bedtime reading boon. Volume 2 has arrived. Translated by

  2. Jan 10
    Replying to

    Here's a more precise statement, from the Introduction to my book.

  3. Jan 8

    And for a brief moment in Amazon Kindle, I'm ahead of Top 10 UFO sightings and The Return of the God Hypothesis.

  4. Jan 8

    Author copies have arrived!

  5. Jan 5

    From the last chapter of Why I Am Not a Buddhist

  6. 20 Dec 2019
  7. 18 Dec 2019

    3/4 I recently restated this view for cerebral organoids (one of the main cases the authors consider)

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  8. 17 Dec 2019

    2/ Jim Austin talks about the study here in Zen and the Brain (p. 79)

  9. 16 Nov 2019
    Replying to
  10. 14 Nov 2019
    Replying to and

    Here's my working abstract. It's brand new work.

  11. 12 Nov 2019

    Here's a video of my talk from the conference "The Blind Spot: Experience, Science and the Search for 'Truth'" at last spring Evan Thompson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver via

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  12. 8 Nov 2019

    Neural Organoids Are Not Brains in Vats with Evan Thompson via

  13. 8 Nov 2019

    Here's a video of my Oct 4 2019 talk at "Neural Organoids Are Not Brains in Vats," which draws on earlier work with

  14. 5 Nov 2019

    One of my favourite places anywhere.

  15. 5 Nov 2019

    Andrea Falk's new dictionary for Chinese language and martial arts enthusiasts. 很厲害!

  16. 4 Nov 2019

    Yes it does. Act as if your house is on fire. Important piece by

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  17. 3 Nov 2019
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    I grew up imbibing this idea and now am skeptical. See my chapter "The Rhetoric of Enlightenment," in my new book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist. You can see parts of the content here

  18. 30 Oct 2019

    My copy of Classical Chinese for Everyone by has arrived!

  19. 25 Oct 2019

    If you'd like to get an advance look at some of what's in my new book, Why I Am Not a Buddhist, here's a video of a talk, based on one of the book's chapters, that I gave a few weeks ago at San Diego State University.

  20. 18 Sep 2019

    Not true, actually, but amusing nonetheless

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