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

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    1. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 8
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      Evan Thompson Retweeted Michael Taft 空

      Thanks Michael Taft for a great conversation @OortCloudAtlashttps://twitter.com/OortCloudAtlas/status/1226302539080986624 …

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      Michael Taft 空 @OortCloudAtlas
      Just got done interviewing @evantthompson about his new book, "Why I Am Not a Buddhist" for the Deconstructing Yourself podcast. Fabulously interesting topics and talk—powerful stuff for all meditators. Should be out in a couple of weeks. pic.twitter.com/Mc8RabR8uF
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    2. juan ignacio lopez‏ @ironmann66 Feb 9
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      Replying to @evantthompson @OortCloudAtlas

      I will reserve other questions, if you aloud me, when a finish your book I’m not a buddhist as you are, but it seems to me that you didn’t dwell much in the paralels with physics. You concentrated perhaps too much neuro science and the meaning of Enlightment

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    3. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 9
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      Replying to @ironmann66 @OortCloudAtlas

      Parallels with physics? I'm doubtful about this

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    4. juan ignacio lopez‏ @ironmann66 Feb 9
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      Replying to @evantthompson @OortCloudAtlas

      World. Very much in line with Nagaryunas Void, the absence of any pre existing entities before observation, mutual interprenation of all things. Etc. There are several potential paralels recognized by people like Heisenberg, Pauli, Bohm, Wigner,Schodringer

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    5. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 9
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      Replying to @ironmann66 @OortCloudAtlas

      I'm familiar with these supposed parallels. Some are to Buddhist ideas; some are to Brahminical ones. It's been happening since the 19th century, so it's not very convincing (how can these different ideas be consistent with both 19th and 21st century science?) [1]

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    6. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 9
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      Replying to @evantthompson @ironmann66 @OortCloudAtlas

      But I do think the Buddhist philosophical tradition is important and relevant to thinking about science (as are many other philosophical traditions)

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    7. juan ignacio lopez‏ @ironmann66 Feb 9
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      Replying to @evantthompson @OortCloudAtlas

      If you prefer I will use the term eastern philosophies. Daoism is also very importante

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    8. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 9
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      Replying to @ironmann66 @OortCloudAtlas

      I think we should avoid the term "Eastern." It lumps many different traditions and cultures together in a simplifying and distorting way

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    9. juan ignacio lopez‏ @ironmann66 Feb 11
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      Replying to @evantthompson @OortCloudAtlas

      That emerges from physics and also biólogy.

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    10. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 11
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      Replying to @ironmann66

      Some Buddhist concepts can be made to align with science; others not. This is true for other religions, too. Science as we know it came out of monotheistic religions and their vision of the universe as designed, lawfully ordered, and written in the language of math [1]

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      Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 11
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      So extracting Buddhist concepts and taking them out of context and lining them up with science just doesn't work.

      7:22 AM - 11 Feb 2020
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        2. Evan Thompson‏ @evantthompson Feb 11
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          NB: My point about science and monotheistic religions isn't that they're more scientific; it's rather to remind us that the science-religion relationship is complex in ways that Buddhist exceptionalism misses [3]

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        3. juan ignacio lopez‏ @ironmann66 Feb 11
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          We can ask which of those religions and philosophies comes closer to this conclusions for example. The answer would have to be Buddhism. We would not aspire to say that they have to be 100% similar. That would be silly. But that there are conections, there

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